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.

Monday, November 3, 2014

Improving Older Individuals’ Physical Function Over Time With an Implicit-Age-Stereotype Intervention

Does your doctor need to completely change their stroke protocols to implicit vs. explicit interventions?  Does this add proof to this intervention style?

Explicit and implicit motor learning during early gait rehabilitation post stroke

The New York Times discussing this here;
Presumably after reading the full research.
http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/a-workout-for-the-mind/
A few selected paragraphs here;
Yet the researchers have now reported, in the journal Psychological Science, that an “implicit” intervention works subliminally to strengthen older people’s positive age stereotypes. That leads, in turn, to stronger physical functioning. The effects were still evident three weeks after the intervention ended.
Here’s how it worked with a group of 100 older adults (average age 81) living New Haven, Conn. Once a week over four weeks, these volunteers were exposed to what’s sometimes called an “implicit association” exercise.
Some in the group saw positive words associated with aging — like wise, creative, spry and fit, along with old and senior — flashed on a laptop screen so briefly that while the brain registered them, people couldn’t tell what they said. “Perception without awareness,” as Dr. Levy put it. The sessions lasted about 15 minutes. Other subjects engaged in an “explicit” exercise, in which they were asked to write brief essays about active older people. The researchers controlled for age, sex and health.
As expected, follow-up tests showed that the implicit intervention significantly strengthened positive age stereotypes and self-perceptions of age. Then, one week and three weeks after the final session, participants were given physical tasks: repeatedly standing up from a chair and sitting down, walking across a room, holding poses that challenge balance.
The group exposed to implicit positive messages showed significant improvement in physical function, compared to their status before the experiment began. Those who participated in the explicit intervention and wrote essays showed no improvement.
In fact, the people who underwent four brief exposures to implicit positive messages showed greater physical improvement than a group of a similar aged, enrolled in a different study, that actually exercised for six months.

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