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ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery

12 hours ago

Artificial intelligence (AI) has played a more critical role in neurological rehabilitation for decades. Have you come across it??Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) have become essential elements of AI-assisted rehabilitation based on machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) algorithms. AI-assisted rehabilitation offers personalization, real-time feedback, improved accessibility, data-driven insights and cost efficiency better than conventional methods with comparable or even better outcomes.

There are still some challenges that need to be addressed in using AI for motor rehabilitation of post-stroke patients. Based on the results of this review (see poster and the link), which assessed the combination of the use of robotic devices and the use of AI, mainly to provide adaptive feedback to the rehabilitation program, it is still insufficient because it has not shown significant improvement in the group using this therapy modality. However, the effect is non-inferior when compared to conventional therapy.

The Highlights:
*AI-assisted stroke rehabilitation shows promising outcomes in terms of functional and motoric outcomes.
*AI-assisted stroke rehabilitation is more feasible, personalized, cost-effective than the conventional method.
*A combination of VR and rehabilitation robots give the best result.
* AI-assisted stroke rehabilitation encourages home-based care and improves treatment adherence
* The widely accepted guideline for AI-assisted rehabilitation
has not been agreed upon.

Click to www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666459325000447
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ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery

20 hours ago

Think about it! It's true isn't it?
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ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery

2 days ago

Would you like to get up from the floor without any support? YES!
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ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery

4 days ago

Side bends don't always have to be done on the floor. There's and exercise in The Successful Stroke Survivor book that shows you how to do them in standing. It is worth remembering that exercises can often be modified to make them achievable. If you need some help we have trainers throughout the country who can work with you. Give us a call on 0203 053 0111 or email support@arni.uk.com
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ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery

5 days ago

Independently getting off the floor (IGO): a feasibility study of teaching people with stroke to get up after a fall - a look-back at research at the ARNI strategy that has been used for 24 years now in the community since developed by Dr Tom.

Background: Falls are common among stroke survivors but many are not taught how to get up again. A technique from Action for Rehabilitation following Neurological Injury (ARNI) addresses this problem. This study investigated the feasibility and safety of teaching this technique to stroke survivors.
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ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery

7 days ago

So what is subluxation? It is a partial dislocation of the arm at the shoulder joint that occurs in many people after a stroke. In most cases the humerus (upper arm bone) drops down out of the shoulder joint. This condition is caused by inappropriate neural drive to the muscles of the shoulder, causing either extreme muscle weakness or spastic muscles.

Stand relaxed, with your shoulders at your sides. Now you need to try to think about squeezing your shoulders towards the level of your ears. The aim is for the slope of your shoulders to become as symmetrical and as close to the horizontal as possible. Breathe in as you pull the shoulders up, hold for a few counts at the top, whilst squeezing your neck muscles together hard. Then slowly lower your shoulders again whilst breathing out. Do not rotate your shoulders – no need for that. Up, hold and down works best. Try doing this whilst looking in a mirror and evaluate your progress. Do not get down-hearted however, if it appears that your drop-shoulder is very significant. Provided it is not misaligned, I have seen the problem, and usually the pain, lessen in most cases. And over time, for many people, it will disappear as long as you are taking part in effortful exercise, especially if you able to get further into resistance training No need to hold onto any weight for now. Any weight held in your hands can come later once you are happy with the technique.

Taken from The Successful Stroke Survivor book
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ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery

1 week ago

There's a great exercise in The Successful Stroke Survivor book called Stick Sword-play. It's an advanced, multi-joint movement, movement, suitable for you when you have a fair degree of voluntary control. The technique is straightforward.

It’s your time to get busy with your ‘sword’, with an imaginary opponent in front of you.

Have you tried it?
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ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery

1 week ago

Onto one of our favourite topics at ARNI – trying to regain action control of the upper limb.

A majority of stroke survivors who are matched with ARNI specialist instructors, when relaying their prior physiotherapy and any other early rehabilitative efforts, will report that the focus of their therapy to date has usually been on the paretic lower limb & balance, weight-bearing & walking practice. A minority remembered consistently focusing on practising upper limb exercises.

This happens for a number of reasons, but primarily because it is critical to get stroke survivors walking, and also essential to keep spirits up with the recognition of progress, which probably is facilitated better by the thought of being able to walk again.

So hospitals often do not have time to devote to extensive hand-function efforts, and by the time further treatment is sought, the task is all the more harder. But it is vital that stroke survivors are shown what to do in the community in order to continue the work of the therapists.

ARNI founder, Dr Tom, has consistently found it no simple task to work out exactly what to try to do in order to help someone with a presentation of spasticity or flaccidity (or most likely, a combination of the two, depending upon at what point one gets to meet the survivor).

Each presentation has varying characteristics (so no specialist knows fully what kind of evidence-based 'mix of interventions' to apply, otherwise stroke survivors in general would be doing much better these days!). But there are LOADS of ways to try (to engage neuroplasticity/encourage spasticity/flaccidity decline etc etc...)

Btw, ARNI has over 170 active trainers and therapists across the UK, who attempt to support you to do help yourself, if you have u/l problems; guiding and guarding you into/toward a pattern of success.

And helping you set up a practice regime/programme - and also how someone else can help you – mainly in positioning your hand and supporting your arm to do task-practice. And will show you a number of best ways that you can get started. No need for expensive kit either.

CALL THE ARNI INSTITUTE CHARITY FOR STROKE REHAB TO FIND OUT MORE! Call Us : 0203 053 0111
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