Deans' stroke musings: Effect of stretching of spastic elbow under intelligent control in chronic stroke survivors

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.

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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

Effect of stretching of spastic elbow under intelligent control in chronic stroke survivors—a pilot study.

So where EXACTLY do we get this device so our hospitals can use it on us before we become chronic?

Effect of stretching of spastic elbow under intelligent control in chronic stroke survivors—a pilot study.

Frontiers in Neurology , Volume 12 , Pgs. 742260.

NARIC Accession Number: J89144. What's this?
ISSN: 1664-2295.
Author(s): Rao, Sanjana; Huang, Meizhen; Chung, Sun G.; Zhang, Li-Qun.
Project Number: 90REMM0001.
Publication Year: 2021.
Number of Pages: 10.
Abstract: Study assessed the short-term effects of strenuous dynamic stretching of the elbow joint using an intelligent stretching device in chronic spastic stroke survivors. The intelligent stretching device was utilized to provide a single session of intensive stretching to the spastic elbow joint in the sagittal plane (i.e., elbow flexion and extension). The stretching was provided to the extreme range, safely, with control of the stretching velocity and torque to increase the joint range of motion (ROM) and reduce spasticity and joint stiffness. Eight chronic stroke survivors completed a single 40-minute stretching intervention session. Elbow passive and active ROM, strength, passive stiffness (quantifying the non-reflex component of spasticity), and instrumented tendon reflex test of the biceps tendon (quantifying the reflex component of the spasticity) were measured before and after stretching. After stretching, there was a significant increase in passive ROM of elbow flexion and extension. Also, elbow active ROM and the spastic elbow flexors showed a trend of increase in their strength. Findings suggest that intelligent stretching can be used to repeatedly and regularly stretch spastic elbow joints, which subsequently helps to reduce upper-limb impairments post-stroke.
Descriptor Terms: EXERCISE, JOINTS, LIMBS, MOBILITY IMPAIRMENTS, MOTOR SKILLS, SPASTICITY, STROKE.

Can this document be ordered through NARIC's document delivery service*?: Y.
Get this Document: https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2021.742260.

Citation: Rao, Sanjana, Huang, Meizhen, Chung, Sun G., Zhang, Li-Qun. (2021). Effect of stretching of spastic elbow under intelligent control in chronic stroke survivors—a pilot study. Frontiers in Neurology , 12, Pgs. 742260. Retrieved 7/24/2022, from REHABDATA database.