Deans' stroke musings: Towards a bio-inspired control strategy for bilateral stroke rehabilitation based on motor control principles

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.

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Towards a bio-inspired control strategy for bilateral stroke rehabilitation based on motor control principles

I'm sure someplace in there is some useful information for us. But your doctor should be reading all these research articles as part of their goals and objectives from their hospital. And then update the stroke protocols as needed.
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Singh, Anushree ; Rehabilitation Robotics Lab, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. 19104 ; Rai, Roshan ; Johnson, Michelle J.

Conventional robotic devices used for robot aided neurorehabilitation focus on unilateral training of the upper extremity post neurologic injury such as stroke, cerebral palsy etc. In this paper, we seek to establish adherence of bimanual motions of healthy and stroke subjects to the higher laws governing principles of symmetric and asymmetric division of labor in bimanual activities. As a first pass, we propose three metrics to capture these principles. We identify that the Euclidean and velocity difference metrics were able to capture key aspects of key bilateral motion control principles for the bilateral tasks studied, but may fall short if the tasks were different and asymmetric. We propose a control strategy to use the metrics to support task-oriented, bilateral stroke rehabilitation. Future work requires the development of metrics that more fully capture the motor control principles irrespective of tasks and the implementation of a bilateral controller.