Deans' stroke musings: The Importance of Recovering Body Awareness in post-stroke rehabilitation: Insights from clinical case reports

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, November 28, 2024

The Importance of Recovering Body Awareness in post-stroke rehabilitation: Insights from clinical case reports

USELESS! You give us NOTHING ON HOW TO RECOVER THIS! You're fired!

The Importance of Recovering Body Awareness in post-stroke rehabilitation: Insights from clinical case reports

Simona Cammaroto

Angelo Quartarone

Rocco Salvatore Calabrò

IRCCS Centro Neurolesi Bonino Pulejo, Messina, Italy

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

Body awareness (BA) is the process of gaining sensory awareness based on the body's physiological states and actions. It is influenced by an individual's attitudes, perceptions, beliefs, and experiences within the social and cultural context. Following a stroke, impairments in BA are thought to be widespread and could have a significant impact on recovery results. Regaining body awareness, however, is often neglected in the neurorehabilitation field. This study aims to assess body image perception in two stroke patients and the potential effect of motor and cognitive rehabilitative treatments on possible improvement of BA. In this clinical study, we describe Patients were evaluated through a multidimensional neuropsychological assessment before and after a 3-months motor and cognitive rehabilitative training in two stroke patients presented with BA. Sessions were scheduled 6 times per week with a total duration of 3 hours per session. After the neurorehabilitative treatment, both patients showed an improvement in BA, cognition, mood, and motor skills.Our results showed that the same type of neurorehabilitation treatment could also be effective in patients with BA deficits resulting from injury at unusual sites. Although both patients improved markedly the level of BA there remain dDifferences emerged related to the progression and improvement of their respective performances. The causes of these differences could include the following:be multiple, such as different brain area affected, ischemic or hemorrhagic nature of the stroke, age, andor gender. Further research is needed to better understand the differences and similarities in the correlations between deficit and lesional site. Structured and early multidisciplinary intervention can certainly guarantee a better functional recovery for patients after a stroke. However, in this study we show how complementary assessment methods (such as human figure drawing) may be highly informative in choosing treatment modalities and verifying rehabilitation outcomes.The development of early and effective intervention strategies(Because you did nothing to solve this problem; YOU'RE FIRED!) for the recovery of BA should be considered as critical after stroke.