Deans' stroke musings: Lateropulsion Rehabilitation Using Virtual Reality for Stroke Patients

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, May 20, 2017

Lateropulsion Rehabilitation Using Virtual Reality for Stroke Patients

Lateropulsion is pusher syndrome.

Lateropulsion Rehabilitation Using Virtual Reality for Stroke Patients

Abstract

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Virtual reality (VR) is being explored as a method of rehabilitation for stroke patients, specifically in lateropulsion patients. Virtual Reality or augmented reality, provides realistic 3-dimensional environments combined with real-time movements.
The user is able to concentrate on the scenery and feel removed from their real life setting and immersed in a new
setting.
Integrating virtual reality with rehabilitation practices is an accessible way for patients to improve their recovery times while
using a mobile device to make rehabilitation more accessible to the patient. The goal of this research is to use virtual reality as a viable tool for physical therapists to help improve the stamina of recovering patients.
The study will explore the benefits of changing the environment of the user, to help change their perspective of the world and normalizing the world for lateropulsion stroke patients.
This work will conduct the necessary research to develop a mobile application which may benefit the lives of stroke patients by potentially decreasing the lateropulsion symptoms.