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Integrating virtual reality into rehab can increase upper limb rehabilitation repetitions by up to 500%! A collaborative pilot study in Belfast has just demonstrated this: the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust recently partnered with eXRt to trial Resynk, an immersive rehabilitation platform designed to address the challenges of traditional, repetitive therapy.
During the six-month pilot, stroke survivors engaged in a combination of conventional occupational therapy and gamified VR sessions to compare movement volume and patient engagement levels. The results revealed that patients achieved significantly higher repetitions within the digital environment, with one individual reaching nearly 800 movements in a single session.
Beyond the quantitative data, participants reported enhanced motivation and improved mood, reflecting ARNI Stroke Rehab UK Charity's focus on the psychological benefits of progressive & intensive retraining. By providing flexible, bedside access to high-intensity training, this tech seems to offer a reasonably good solution for us stroke survivors and their ARNI neuro-instructors re-training in home situations.🧠
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When a stroke affects your ability to concentrate or notice your environment, it can result in poor balance. For example, you may slip on a step, not because your legs are weak, but because you simply did not notice the step. Therefore, improving your attention can help with regaining balance after a stroke.
Contact us if you need help with this.
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A revolutionary portable neuroimaging device for rapid, point-of-care stroke detection is poised to transform emergency recovery outcomes following a significant international funding breakthrough. 🏥
New Zealand medtech firm Wellumio has secured NZ$7.28 million in pre-Series A funding to advance its Axana technology, a portable brain scanner designed to unlock life-saving treatment within the critical ‘golden hour’. This development is of interest to ARNI Stroke Rehab UK, as immediate detection is the vital precursor to the successful long-term physical retraining and neuroplasticity that the charity provides.
The investment round, led by Nuance Connected Capital, ensures that this portable diagnostic tool moves closer to global clinical application for the benefit of survivors. This advancement represents a critical step in the stroke pathway, ensuring that survivors can access intensive, task-specific training with the best possible neurological starting point. As medical tech evolves, we reckon that the integration of rapid diagnostics with the high-level rehabilitation expertise of the ARNI Stroke Rehab UK Institute and Charity promises a slightly more optimistic future for survivors across the UK. 🧠
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Not sure Bee... it didn't say...
If this is like an MRI brain scanner without having your head bolted down I applaud
Is it being introduced in the UK? And..... Throughout the UK?
NEWS FLASH: Revolutionary ‘at home’ technology for stroke-induced upper limb impairment is to feature on the BBC this weekend as part of a major national clinical trial update. 🗞️✨
Airing this Saturday (14th Feb), BBC presenter Shiona McCallum visits Sheffield’s Royal Hallamshire Hospital to investigate the TRICEPS trial, a £2 million study evaluating a non-invasive solution for permanent arm and hand weakness. 🏥
The techuses Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation (TVNS); a lightweight earpiece that delivers mild electrical pulses during rehabilitation, to enhance neuroplasticity without the need for surgery. 🧠
This evidence-based approach to long-term recovery aligns with the mission of the ARNI Stroke Rehab UK Institute and Charity, which specialises in bridging the gap between hospital discharge and functional independence. 💪 The trial offers a vital window of hope for those seeking to improve their quality of life, often years after their initial injury.
As a leading charity in the field, ARNI continues to actively support academic colleagues who are involved in RCTs like this, researching into practical, sustainable rehabilitation pathways for the survivor community across the UK.🙌
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Uselessly, it doesn't say what time it's on!
O tried to get on the above trial but I was rejected no reason given
Geoff's Journey .....might be an interesting watch 🥰
Please could you say which BBC channel this will be on and what time please?
I survived stroke purchasing his teas
Hayah Mitwal
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Seated marching exercise: This works extremely well for starting to build up co-ordination and timing in your lower limbs.
It's a fine exercise for you to do if you are tired, having just done an effortful exercise like ‘getting up from the floor’, and you are not quite ready to attempt another effortful exercise. Don’t think that this is a restful exercise however, because it must be done with a high degree of control. You are attempting to control where your foot is coming back down onto the floor each time, and produce a left/right marching pattern. I have found that the most important aspect with this exercise in order to gain most control is to have the stroke survivor self-select a speed, then ask him or her to speed the rhythmic marching up and then slow it down a number of times.
See The Successful Stroke Survivor book for full instructions on how to correctly do this exercise.
www.strokesolutions.co.uk/product/successful-stroke-survivor-manual/
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Good morning!
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A 2021 study from the National Institutes of Health found that when you’re studying a new skill and practicing, you can speed up your progress by taking short breaks. Instead of keeping your head in the piano and playing for 45 minutes straight, your brain does a better job at encoding new information if you drop in a series of 10-second breaks.
This strategy makes a lot of sense for this simple reason: your brain has difficulty encoding and learning new information simultaneously. So why not give it a second to catch up?
Have you tried this? Did it work for you?
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www.upworthy.com/neuroscientists-say-a-simple-10-second-trick-will-help-you-learn-things-much-faster
i just asked Dr Tom Balchin from ARNI Stroke Rehab to supply me his thoughts for the day for other survivors like him. He replied by email:
'Ok then Pam! Well, the one thing I find myself telling all my patients (and students and therapists to keep to make sure to keep emphasising) is that ‘knowledge is power’. You know this already, but in the field of stroke rehabilitation as in most other fields there are new advances, major and minor (and tweaks/adjustments to potentially optimise custom solutions for YOU (possibly!) emerging regularly'.
'So I guess one needs to know how to transition into ‘the expert patient’. Your emphasis needs to be on keeping as current as possible. You need to know what you need. And if you find modes appropriate to your needs, trying to investigate them further to work out whether they’re suitable applications to streamline your retraining or self-management'.
Cheers Dr Tom! Helpful advice. Pass this on via the Share button! 😉 😉
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i just asked Dr Tom Balchin from ARNI Stroke Rehab to supply me his thoughts for the day for other survivors like him. He replied by email:
'Ok then Pam! Well, the one thing I find myself telling all my patients (and students and therapists to keep to make sure to keep emphasising) is that ‘knowledge is power’. You know this already, but in the field of stroke rehabilitation as in most other fields there are new advances, major and minor (and tweaks/adjustments to potentially optimise custom solutions for YOU (possibly!) emerging regularly'.
'So I guess one needs to know how to transition into ‘the expert patient’. Your emphasis needs to be on keeping as current as possible. You need to know what you need. And if you find modes appropriate to your needs, trying to investigate them further to work out whether they’re suitable applications to streamline your retraining or self-management'.
Cheers Dr Tom! Helpful advice. Pass this on via the Share button! 😉 😉
#stroke #strokesurvivors #neuroplasticity #strokerecovery #strokearmrehab #neurorehab #strokeexercise #strokerecoveryexercises #exerciseafterstroke #strokerehabilitation #strokerehab #neurorehabilitation
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A study has proven that by integrating 30 minutes a day of progressive walking exercise into standard stroke rehabilitation (30 to 60 minutes of physical therapy five days a week) stroke patients have a measurable improved quality of life and mobility at hospital discharge compared to control groups.
We stroke survivors know that regaining walking ability, if we can, is an important part of stroke recovery.
Prof Janice Eng, a very well-known stroke rehabilitation specialist and professor in the department of physical therapy at the University of British Columbia in Canada (who was co-PI to this study) stated:
"Although guidelines recommend structured, progressive exercise after stroke, the uptake of these approaches that have sufficient intensity for rehab programs is still lagging. Structured and progressively more challenging exercise, aided by wearable devices to provide feedback on intensity, can help people maintain safe intensity levels that are crucial for neuroplasticity."
The take-away here for us is that a progressively higher-intensity walking exercise programme, COMBINED with standard physical re-training, can significantly improve the quality of life and mobility of stroke survivors.
#stroke #strokesurvivors #neuroplasticity #strokerecovery #strokearmrehab #neurorehab #strokeexercise #strokerecoveryexercises #exerciseafterstroke #strokerehabilitation #strokerehab #neurorehabilitation
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Maybe look for a secondhand treadmill or walk around your house
Get wrapped up
Get a treadmill
Get positive
OK. But post stroke fatigue prevents doing much , physical or mental work, Inc talking.
I believe in pushing hard early on.i I asked them to push me and even gave me weekend sessions
I walked out of 11 weeks rehab in a promising state
Shame spasticity wrecked me over time
But what do you do when it's cold outside. I can't go outside because the cold will trigger the pain syndrome. And I can't afford a gym which I couldn't get to the gym because then I have to go outside and again the cold would trigger the pain syndrome
My husband was discharged from hospital after three weeks to what we were told was a "rehab unit". It was a hospital ward, where he got half an hour a day if he was lucky. At that stage he needed help to stand up and was being moved.on a Sara steady. He insisted on coming home.after 4 weeks. At home he received 5 sessions of NHS physio per week and we did and still do.exercise every day. No longer need the steady or the.commode. Walking with quad stick, but he is getting stronger day by day. Hospital also made us think the arm wouldn't need the attention as it would be "the last thing" to come back, but at home with therapy there is a flicker of hope. Muscles starting to work, his fingers . starting to.move. NHS don't have time on the wards, ultimately the battle us ours and we have to work at it 7 days a week with or without assistance. It's the only way
Whwre do you do the physio can any stroke survivo join I
Has the same case but found a help from
Dr Osazee
Swimm really helped me walk without a stick well done keep it up you’re doing great
I was in hospital nearly 6 months I was lucky to get 60 mins a week! I do feel for NHS staff they just don’t get the time to spend with patients and stroke rehab is just dismal within NHS 😒
Well done you
The UK 🇬🇧 lags behind with all of this . I was discharged after 4 weeks in re hab . That consisted of walking up & down the corridor when they felt like it . I was sitting on a chair by my bed from first thing in the morning until
I got into bed at night !!!!
I came home & they knew I lived alone , but I was taking up space in a bed …..,
All I have done has been of my doing I have had no help at all.
I now go to a multi gym 3 days a week , zoom yoga once a week, trike riding 6 miles once a week & stroke club seated aerobics once a week .
I am back driving now , mow my own lawns all be it takes me longer now .
I would love to know what I should be doing to improve things !!!!!
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