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.

Thursday, August 17, 2017

Reported use of technology in stroke rehabilitation by physical and occupational therapists

Lack of objective feedback to patients is a huge concern. With nothing objective you can't correlate interventions to recovery. 
https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/Reported_use_of_technology_in_stroke_rehabilitation_by_physical_and_occupational_therapists/5314591
byJeanne LanganHeamchand SubryanIfeoma NwoguLora Cavuoto
Purpose: With the patient care experience being a healthcare priority, it is concerning that patients with stroke reported boredom and a desire for greater fostering of autonomy, when evaluating their rehabilitation experience. Technology has the potential to reduce these shortcomings by engaging patients through entertainment and objective feedback. Providing objective feedback has resulted in improved outcomes and may assist the patient in learning how to self-manage rehabilitation. Our goal was to examine the extent to which physical and occupational therapists use technology in clinical stroke rehabilitation home exercise programs.
Materials and methods: Surveys were sent via mail, email and online postings to over 500 therapists, 107 responded.
Results: Conventional equipment such as stopwatches are more frequently used compared to newer technology like Wii and Kinect games. Still, less than 25% of therapists’ report using a stopwatch five or more times per week. Notably, feedback to patients is based upon objective data less than 50% of the time by most therapists. At the end of clinical rehabilitation, patients typically receive a written home exercise program and non-technological equipment, like theraband and/or theraputty to continue rehabilitation efforts independently.
Conclusions: The use of technology is not pervasive in the continuum of stroke rehabilitation.Implications for Rehabilitation
The patient care experience is a priority in healthcare, so when patients report feeling bored and desiring greater fostering of autonomy in stroke rehabilitation, it is troubling.
Research examining the use of technology has shown positive results for improving motor performance and engaging patients through entertainment and use of objective feedback.
Physical and occupational therapists do not widely use technology in stroke rehabilitation.
Therapists should consider using technology in stroke rehabilitation to better meet the needs of the patient.
The patient care experience is a priority in healthcare, so when patients report feeling bored and desiring greater fostering of autonomy in stroke rehabilitation, it is troubling.
Research examining the use of technology has shown positive results for improving motor performance and engaging patients through entertainment and use of objective feedback.
Physical and occupational therapists do not widely use technology in stroke rehabilitation.
Therapists should consider using technology in stroke rehabilitation to better meet the needs of the patient.

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