Deans' stroke musings: Advancing Stroke Rehabilitation: Designing an Augmented Reality System for Enhanced User Engagement and Recovery

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.

Thursday, July 25, 2024

Advancing Stroke Rehabilitation: Designing an Augmented Reality System for Enhanced User Engagement and Recovery

User engagement/motivation is simple.

You don't understand ONE GODDAMN THING ABOUT SURVIVOR MOTIVATION, DO YOU? You create 100% recovery protocols and your survivor will be motivated to do the millions of reps needed because they are looking forward to 100% recovery. GET THERE!

The problem is stroke researchers are not motivated to solve stroke. What the fuck is your solution to that failure? We still don't know how to motivate stroke medical 'professionals' to solve stroke to 100% recovery!

Advancing Stroke Rehabilitation: Designing an Augmented Reality System for Enhanced User Engagement and Recovery

Abstract:

A rising trend of stroke incidence, deaths, prevalence, and Disability Adjusted Life Year (DALYS) creates an ever-growing demand and service of rehabilitation. Bottlenecked by resource constraints, traditional rehabilitation struggles to meet rising demand, necessitating innovative solutions. The purpose of this project is to address the service gap by developing an augmented reality (AR) stroke rehabilitation desktop application to be used by stroke patients at the comfort of their home. This application detects and tracks user body positions as patients are tasked to complete a series of exercises related to stroke rehabilitation. The developed application utilizes Kinect for Windows SDK 2.0 for skeleton and joint tracking, allowing users to interact with augmented virtual objects added to the real-world in real time, coupled with audiovisual feedback. The survey results were collected from the participants of doctors, nurses, medical lab technologist, mild stroke patients, and healthy individuals with family members suffering from stroke. The results supported that this application has successfully provided tele-rehabilitation services of equal efficacy to traditional rehabilitation with improved engagement and flexibility.

Published in: 2024 IEEE 14th Symposium on Computer Applications & Industrial Electronics (ISCAIE)

Date of Conference: 24-25 May 2024

Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 08 July 2024

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