Oklahoma rehabilitation hospital introduces new therapy treatment for stroke patients

Failure, failure, failure. Notice they say 'better chance' and 'improve' NOT that you will get these results.  That is a complete failure to have EXACT STROKE PROTOCOLS producing recovery results.

Oklahoma rehabilitation hospital introduces new therapy treatment for stroke patients

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Stroke survivors across the metro will now have a better chance at recovery thanks to a new therapy treatment program.
On Wednesday, Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital unveiled a new therapy treatment program for those who have suffered a neurological injury. Officials say neurological injuries are common after a stroke, which affects about 800,000 Americans each year.
In fact, the National Institute on Aging says that strokes are the number one cause of serious adult disability in the United States.
According to the Oklahoma State Department of Health, stroke was the fifth leading cause of death in Oklahoma in 2014.
After a stroke, patients will often undergo physical therapy to relearn simple motor activities like walking, sitting, standing, and lying down.
Now, a new therapy treatment hopes to improve the effects of physical therapy on Oklahoma stroke patients.
The AI-powered InMotion Arm robotic therapy system from BIONIK helps stroke survivors record between 600 and 1,000 movements per session, which is a dramatic increase from traditional physical therapy.
"For the most part, this helps us get a lot of return with those patients. Our normal therapists can do about 40 to 60 reps of motion per session. This allows us to do about 600 reps per session with this bionic arm," said David Miller, director of therapy at Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital.
InMotion systems help patients throughout the United States and in more than 15 countries.

Comparative assessment of two robot-assisted therapies for the upper extremity in people with chronic stroke

Useless because no protocol was created and had no objective starting point. So it is not repeatable. We don't need incredibly lazy words like 'might'. Survivors want definitive results. Do this, you get this result. This is so fucking simple. Who is going to inform researchers that that is the expected result of all stroke rehab research?

Comparative assessment of two robot-assisted therapies for the upper extremity in people with chronic stroke

 American Journal of Occupational Therapy (AJOT) , Volume 73(1) , Pgs. 7301205010.

NARIC Accession Number: J80499.  What's this?
ISSN: 0272-9490.
Author(s): Hung, Chung-shan; Hsieh, Yu-wei; Wu, Ching-yi; Lin, Keh-chung; Lin, Jui-chi; Yeh, Li-min; Yin, Hsin-pei.
Publication Year: 2019.
Number of Pages: 9.
Abstract: Study investigated the effects of two robot-assisted therapies (RT) on motor and daily function in people with chronic stroke using the Bi-Manu-Track (BMT) and InMotion 3.0 (IMT) robots compared with control treatment (CT). Thirty participants were randomized to the BMT, IMT, or CT group. All participants in the three groups received interventions of 90–100 minutes per day, 5 days a week, for 4 weeks. The intervention began with 5 minutes of muscle tone normalization as needed. The BMT and IMT groups received 70–75 minutes of RT. After the RT, functional-based activities were practiced for 20 minutes. The following outcome measures were administered before and immediately after the intervention by the same assessor for each participant: Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA), Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS), Motor Activity Log (MAL), and Medical Research Council (MRC) scale. The IMT group improved more in FMA and proximal MAS scores than the BMT group and the CT group. The IMT and BMT groups showed clinically relevant improvements after treatment on the MRC rather than the MAL. The results indicate that the IMT might improve motor function. The IMT and BMT groups showed similar benefits for muscle power but limited improvements in self-perceived use of the affected arm.
Descriptor Terms: BODY MOVEMENT, DAILY LIVING, LIMBS, MOTOR SKILLS, OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY, REHABILITATION TECHNOLOGY, ROBOTICS, STROKE.


Can this document be ordered through NARIC's document delivery service*?: Y.

Citation: Hung, Chung-shan, Hsieh, Yu-wei, Wu, Ching-yi, Lin, Keh-chung, Lin, Jui-chi, Yeh, Li-min, Yin, Hsin-pei. (2019). Comparative assessment of two robot-assisted therapies for the upper extremity in people with chronic stroke.  American Journal of Occupational Therapy (AJOT) , 73(1), Pgs. 7301205010. Retrieved 4/23/2019, from REHABDATA database.

Bionik’s suite of robotic rehabilitation products

I  guess I only had one earlier post on this, so your therapist will know a lot more than me on what possible use these could be for you and what the competing products are.
http://www.bioniklabs.com/products/overview

InMotion ARM

InMotionHAND 

InMotionWRIST

Armed for therapy: Baptist's new rehab tool helps upper body

I'm sure there's several of these arm rehabbers that your therapists should have all the data on. So ask them.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2012/jun/20/armed-for-therapy/
Whether it's brushing her hair, lifting a fork or tying her shoelaces, there are hundreds of small, everyday tasks Ella Bledsoe no longer takes for granted.

Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal

Ella Bledsoe, 69, uses the InMotion Robot with occupational therapist Stacy Castleberry at Baptist Rehabilitation-Germantown.

The 69-year-old stroke patient working to regain control of the muscles on the right side of her body said that after her stroke three months ago, she'd felt like "giving up."
But a new friend at Baptist Rehabilitation-Germantown, a nameless robot, recently acquired by the hospital, has helped her find the strength to keep trying.
During a recent therapy session with the InMotion Arm Robot, Bledsoe played a game similar to "Frogger," moving her right arm back and forth to dodge obstacles raining down on the computer screen in front of her.
"I like this," she said, as she waited for the robot to generate her "score," which is also a progress report for her physical therapist.
Baptist bought the InMotion Arm Robot, at a cost of more than $100,000, about four months ago to supplement care for patients suffering from stroke, cerebral palsy and other neurological conditions.
"This is nice because, traditionally, there are not a lot of tools therapists can use for the upper extremities," said Monika Kolwaite, brain injury coordinator at Baptist Rehab-Germantown.
A therapist might get 50 reps out of a patient during an hourlong session, she said, but the robot gets a thousand. On top of that, the robot tracks a patient's progress and pushes harder each time.
Baptist Memorial Health Care spokeswoman Lori Simpson said the Germantown facility has the only InMotion Arm Robot in the Southeast.
"This is not the only tool in our bag of tricks," said clinical director Amy Barringer. "But this is certainly the newest and has a lot of promise."
Stroke survivors in the U.S. typically undergo rehabilitation therapy in the first six months after a stroke, conventional wisdom being that there's nothing to gain past that point. But a 2010 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that arm robot technology coupled with intense rehabilitation could benefit patients five years removed from a stroke.
"What we're seeing is that really recent and remote stroke patients can benefit from this," Barringer said. "It's our hope that patients, who maybe didn't get help years ago, can benefit from the technology we have now."