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| Kate Allatt Stroke Recovery Tips |
What an amazing tweetchat! Our engagement with you doubled from last month, we all wrote 559 tweets, had 50 participants, received 726,202 impressions, with key influencers were @fightingstrokes, @stroketattler, @dailycaring & @sissstroke. No wonder my fingers were on fire! Thank you v much, it was fun and informative. We were absolutely delighted to receive a tweet from the @natlstrokeassoc (see below) So here’s what I gleaned from our #strokerecovery & technology tweetchat tonight but feel free to study the symplur #strokerecovery transcript if you like. We asked you:
T1. What technology do you use/offer in #strokerecovery therapy? You said:
- Electrical stimulation albeit it was offered tom slowly in the community at 11 months
- Scheduling apps to coordinate family visits
- Apps to help with aphasia and alarms to take medication
- Wii gaming technology for rehabilitation which also involved your children, though it doesn’t work for everyone.
- Blogging in itself helped keep the brain active and was used in #strokerecovery
- @natlstrokeassoc – ‘Wii, Constraint Therapy, Bioness, WalkAid, Mobile apps for aphasia, Myopro, sling supported treadmills.
T2. Is there some technology that you would use? Is it just about cost?
- The IREX system ie, uses immersive video gesture control technology to place patients into virtual sport or gaming environments http://www.gesturetekhealth.com/products-rehab-irex.php
- Transcranial electromagnetic stimulation for aphasia
- Electrical stimulation products
- We would use basic products which would be the basis for more complex based activities
T3. What the main barriers to treating stroke patients?
- A lack of knowledge of available products
- Costs/funding perhaps leasing arrangements is one solution?
- Lack of SALT therapist time.
- Mood, time, mood, depression, fatigue, therapy time, muscle tightening and available technology
- Insurance Companies not applying the ICF model. Ie, The ICF classification system focuses on human functioning and provides a unified, standard language and framework that captures how people with a health condition function in their daily life rather than focusing on their diagnosis or the presence or absence of disease.
- Huge lack of technology-based research for aphasia and cognition.
- Lack of evidence-based research for cognitive rehabilitation.
- We don’t share information enough with patients & families at home.
- Families are overworked with assisting with daily living activities. (Teasell)
- Families are crucial and there is again a lack of clinical evidence.
- Clinicians and academics must work better together. Things get lost in translation.
- Patient input is vital at every stage.
- Yes cost and funding are issues, need lease agreements and insurance company education?
- Computer-based or web-based therapies to help aphasic patients.
- Overcome fatigue with early diagnosis, pharma drugs, psychological counselling CBT talking therapy, physical exercise.
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