Deans' stroke musings: Electrical stimulation as a means for achieving recovery of function in stroke patients

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.

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Electrical stimulation as a means for achieving recovery of function in stroke patients

It's been 13 years, has your stroke hospital done ONE DAMN THING with this? How long will you allow incompetency to last? Your stroke hospital president must think forever is the correct answer. So call your stroke hospital president and ream her/him out for not solving stroke.You obviously don't have a functioning stroke doctor or hospital.

Electrical stimulation as a means for achieving recovery of function in stroke patients

2009, NeuroRehabilitation

Dejan B. Popovi´c a,b,∗
, Thomas Sinkjær c
and Mirjana B. Popovi´c a,b,d
a Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark
b Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia
c Danish National Research Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark
d Institute for Multidisciplinary Research, Belgrade, Serbia

Abstract

. This review presents technologies used in and assesses the main clinical outcomes of electrical therapies designed to speed up and increase functional recovery in stroke patients. The review describes methods which interface peripheral systems (e.g., cyclic neural stimulation, stimulation triggered by electrical activity of muscles, therapeutic functional electrical stimulation) and transcranial brain stimulation with surface and implantable electrodes. Our conclusion from reviewing these data is that integration of electrical therapy into exercise-active movement mediated by electrical activation of peripheral and central sensory-motor mechanisms enhances motor re-learning following damage to the central nervous system. Motor re-learning is considered here as a set of processes associated with practice or experience that leads to long-term changes in the capability for movement. An important suggestion is that therapeutic effects are likely to be much more effective when treatment is applied in the acute, rather than in the chronic, phase of stroke.