Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Sunday, July 24, 2022

Characteristics of the severely impaired hand in survivors of stroke with chronic impairments.

So you found all these problems. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING TO SOLVE THEM? NOTHING LIKE USUAL?

You're fired.

 Characteristics of the severely impaired hand in survivors of stroke with chronic impairments.

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , Volume 29(3) , Pgs. 181-191.

NARIC Accession Number: J89055.  What's this?
ISSN: 1074-9357.
Author(s): Barry, Alexander J.; Kamper, Derek G.; Stoykov, Mary E.; Triandafilou, Kristen; Roth, Elliot.
Publication Year: 2022.
Number of Pages: 11.
Abstract: Study explored potential relationships among the mechanisms responsible for hand impairment following stroke. Ninety-five stroke survivors with severe, chronic hand impairment were evaluated. Custom instrumentation created precise perturbations and measured kinematic responses. Muscle activation was recorded through electromyography. Strength, spasticity, muscle relaxation time, and muscle coactivation were quantified. Maximum grip strength in the paretic hand was only 12 percent of that achieved by the nonparetic hand, and only 6 of 95 participants were able to produce any net extension force. Despite force deficits, spastic reflex response of the finger flexor evoked by imposed stretch averaged 90.1 percent of maximum voluntary activation, relaxation time averaged 3.8 seconds, and coactivation during voluntary extension exceeded 30 percent of maximum contraction, thereby resulting in substantial net flexion. Surprisingly, these hypertonicity measures were not significantly correlated with each other. Survivors of severe, chronic hemiparetic stroke experience profound weakness of both flexion and extension that arises from increased involuntary antagonist activation and decreased voluntary activation. The lack of correlation amongst hypertonicity measures suggests that these phenomena may arise from multiple, potentially independent mechanisms that could require different treatments.
Descriptor Terms: DEXTERITY, FUNCTIONAL LIMITATIONS, LIMBS, MEDICAL ASPECTS, MOTOR SKILLS, MUSCULAR IMPAIRMENTS, STROKE.


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Citation: Barry, Alexander J., Kamper, Derek G., Stoykov, Mary E., Triandafilou, Kristen, Roth, Elliot. (2022). Characteristics of the severely impaired hand in survivors of stroke with chronic impairments.  Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , 29(3), Pgs. 181-191. Retrieved 7/24/2022, from REHABDATA database.

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