Deans' stroke musings: Effect of four-week Kinesio-taping on Tibialis anterior muscle activation and functional mobility in stroke Patients with foot drop: A Pre-Post intervention study

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.

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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.

Saturday, January 11, 2025

Effect of four-week Kinesio-taping on Tibialis anterior muscle activation and functional mobility in stroke Patients with foot drop: A Pre-Post intervention study

I had kinesio taping for my upper arm, don't know if it helped at all. Then there is this from 2006.

Kinesio taping in stroke: improving functional use of the upper extremity in hemiplegia

And this from May 2019;

Systematic Review on Effectiveness of shoulder taping in Hemiplegia

The latest here:

Effect of four-week Kinesio-taping on Tibialis anterior muscle activation and functional mobility in stroke Patients with foot drop: A Pre-Post intervention study

December 2024
International Journal of Physiotherapy 11(4)

DOI:10.15621/ijphy/2024/v11i4/1520

License
CC BY-NC 4.0

Authors:

Dhwanit Shah

Abstract and Figures

Stroke is the second leading cause of mortality worldwide after coronary artery disease and the most common cause of chronic adult disability. A primary impairment following stroke is weakness or paresis, affecting 80 to 90% of patients. Foot drop, caused by weakness of the tibialis anterior muscle and spasticity of the plantar flexors, impairs the ability to raise the foot during the swing phase of walking. This leads to decreased mobility, disrupted walking patterns, and significant limitations in daily activities, potentially resulting in long-term disability.

Methods:

A total of 20 post-stroke patients with foot drop were included in the study. Baseline data were collected using RMS and TUG. The patients were given Kinesiological taping to TA and HMS, keeping in mind the PNF pattern, conventional physiotherapy, and conventional physiotherapy alone.

Results:

Compared to baseline data in group-1, there was a significant change in TUG score but no significant change in RMS, while in PNF kinesiological taping to TA and HMS group-2 had a significant effect on TA muscle activation (p<0.05) and functional Mobility (p<0.05). In contrast, no significant changes were found in the conventional therapy group for RMS.

Conclusion:

The study concluded that four weeks of kinesiological taping in PNF patterns improves Tibialis muscle activation and functional mobility in post-stroke patients with foot drop.

Baseline Characteristics of Participants

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