Deans' stroke musings: REINVENT: Rehabilitation Environment for Post-Stroke Motor Impairment

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.

Saturday, October 22, 2016

REINVENT: Rehabilitation Environment for Post-Stroke Motor Impairment

Hope this works out, ask your doctor for details when it gets to production.
http://www.flintbox.com/public/project/30662/

Details

Project Title	REINVENT: Rehabilitation Environment for Post-Stroke Motor Impairment
Track Code	2017-022
Short Description
Abstract

Tags	stroke recovery, stroke therapy, rehabilitation, motor impairment, neurofeedback, virtual reality

Posted Date	Oct 20, 2016 9:03 PM

Market Opportunity

Stroke remains one of the most devastating of all neurological conditions, and over 795,000 people in the United States have a stroke each year. Up to two-thirds of stroke survivors do not fully recover despite intensive rehabilitative treatment and are left with major motor impairments, requiring long-term assistance with their life. Stroke costs the United States an estimated $34 billion each year. There are, however, few, if any, treatments for severe motor impairment after stroke.

USC Solution

USC researchers have created a novel-closed loop neurofeedback system called REINVENT (Rehabilitation Environment using the Integration of Neuromuscular-based Virtual Enhancements for Neural Training), which provides neurofeedback when an individual's own brain and muscle signals indicate movement attempts.

Value Proposition

Provides feedback using immersive (head-mounted) virtual reality to augment the user's embodied biological movement
Reads and uses signals from both the brain (with electroencephalography, or EEG) and muscles (with electromyography, or EMG)
Portable, cost-effective, and easy to use