Deans' stroke musings: Emerging tools for stroke rehabilitation include mobile app, ankle-foot robot

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.

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Emerging tools for stroke rehabilitation include mobile app, ankle-foot robot

FYI. Maybe something is here but the wishy-washy words used means nothing.

Emerging tools for stroke rehabilitation include mobile app, ankle-foot robot

As more devices aimed at stroke survivors hit the market, two new tech tools under development have been announced to help aid rehabilitation.

Researchers soon will be testing an app for personalized stroke rehab, designed to help users move through 10 different exercises. In addition, a new wearable “robot” prototype has been created that can correct stroke patients’ foot and ankle movements.

The new tools, both of which were developed by separate research Universities in Hong Kong, are indicative of the growing concern around stroke and stroke-related mortality rates, possibly caused by the global growth of older populations.

More than 70% of strokes occur in older adults, and most stroke survivors end up needing rehab for mobility issues, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC also estimates that 11% of older adults living in residential care facilities have had at least one stroke.

The unnamed wearable robotics device is fitted around a user’s foot and ankle and assists with gait, balance and overall neuroplasticity, or restoring the brain’s circuitry for controlling those muscles

Research studies using the device showed that the exoskeleton was 40% more effective for stroke than other mechanical tools, and 90% of users corrected any foot inversion issues, developers noted in a statement.