Stroke is the leading cause of long-term disability

In the United States a stroke occurs every 40 seconds, making it the leading cause of long term disability. While many Americans, nearly 780,000, suffer from a stroke every year, two-thirds of those patients require intensive rehabilitation and many never regain use of their arms. Now there is hope.

There’s a new arm brace device, called the Myomo e100 NeuroRobotic System™, which is helping stroke patients who have lost movement in their body due to partial paralysis. The device is a high-tech arm brace that is currently only being offered at the NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell metro-area hospital.

The Myomo helps patients through sensing electrical currents and impulses in the muscles that indicate the desire to move. When these impulses are felt, the Myomo then offers motorized assistance. The device is offering hope to stroke sufferers who thought they would never be able to regain use of their arms; the device is proving effective years after the stroke, and is changing the thought that stroke survivors could only benefit from rehabilitation a few months after the stroke.






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Urgent Stroke Treatment

A study reported in The Lancet Neurology, led by Peter Rothwell, M.D., Ph.D., of John Radcliffe Hospital, found that urgent treatment – within 24 hours – of a minor stroke or transient ischemic attack not only helped to reduce the risk of recurrent stroke, but also decreased the amount of hospital admissions, reduced the costs associated with the conditions, and reduced the length of hospital stay and reduced the level of disability that was found at six months.

According to the study called 'Early Use of Existing Preventative Strategies for Stroke (EXPRESS), getting treatment within twenty-four hours helped the patients and the health care system. The study was a part of the Oxford Vascular Study (OXVASC) and included nearly 600 patients, some that received immediate treatment (within one day) and others that were sent to clinics by their primary care physicians, who them received treatment recommendations (19 days). The study points to the fact that urgent-care clinics need to be outfitted with ability to treat people with minor stroke and transient ischemic attack.









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