Deans' stroke musings: Does upper limb robot-assisted rehabilitation contribute to improve the prognosis of post-stroke hemiparesis?

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.

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Does upper limb robot-assisted rehabilitation contribute to improve the prognosis of post-stroke hemiparesis?

I don't give a shit about your questions. What are some answers and protocols that will help stroke survivors? Why are these people even given research grants?
http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/25304657
Duret C, Gracies JM

Médecine physique et de réadaptation, unité de rééducation neurologique, CRF « Les Trois Soleils », 19, rue du Château, 77310 Boissise-Le-Roi, France. Electronic address: Ch.duret@les-trois-soleils.fr.

Revue Neurologique [2014]

Type: Review (lang: fre)
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurol.2014.07.012

Abstract

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INTRODUCTION: Upper limb robot-assisted rehabilitation is a novel physical treatment for neurological motor impairments. During the last decade, this rehabilitation option utilizing technological tools has been evaluated in hemiparetic patients, mostly after stroke.

STATE OF ART: Studies at acute and chronic stages suggested good tolerance and a significant and persistent reduction of motor impairment; a real impact on disability has been shown in acute/sub acute patients.

PERSPECTIVES: Improved access to rehabilitation robots and an optimal use will probably(???) be associated with higher efficiency of rehabilitative work in the paretic upper limb.

CONCLUSIONS: Even if this treatment is still confined to a narrow circle of users, the device's biomechanical properties and clinical suggestions from the literature may show promise for the future of rehabilitation.