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.