Post-stroke Recovery
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Stereotactic Injection of Hydrogel into a Post-Stroke Mouse Model
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2025
Source: Wilson, K.L., et al. Injection of Hydrogel Biomaterial Scaffolds to The Brain After Stroke. J. Vis. Exp. (2020)This video demonstrates the stereotaxic injection of a hydrogel into the stroke core of a post-stroke mouse, highlighting its role in scaffold formation that mimics the extracellular matrix, promotes cellular infiltration, and supports angiogenesis, underscoring its neurotherapeutic potential in stroke recovery.
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Autoradiographic Measurements of [14C]-Iodoantipyrine in Rat Brain Following Central Post-Stroke Pain
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2016
We present a protocol to measure [14C]-iodoantipyrine (IAP) uptake and assess the activation of neural substrates that are involved in central post-stroke pain (CPSP) in a rodent model.
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Prescribed Video Game Treatment to Promote Early Recovery for Hospitalized Stroke Patients: Concepts in Standardized Implementation
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2026
Here, we present a standardized approach to implementing prescribed Video Gaming Technology (VGT) for patients hospitalized with acute stroke stratified by level of impairment.
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Motor Dual-Tasks for Gait Analysis and Evaluation in Post-Stroke Patients
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2021
This paper presents a protocol specifically for dual motor task gait analysis in stroke patients with motor control deficits.
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Theta-Burst Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to Promote Stroke Recovery in Rats
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2025
Take a rat with a focal ischemic stroke in the brain cortex, resulting in a compromised BBB, reduced blood flow, and excessive neuronal activity.Stroke also induces astrocyte activation, leading to the formation of neurotoxic astrocytes that release pro-inflammatory cytokines.This triggers neuroinflammation, leading to neuronal and endothelial cell degeneration.Restrain the rat and position the rTMS coil over the ischemic region.Administer theta-burst rTMS for several days.The electromagnetic...
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Spontaneous healing and neuroplasticity contribute in complementary ways. Spontaneous healing is one source of improvement, while neuroplasticity describes how surviving neural networks adapt, reorganize, and form new functional connections. Rehabilitation builds on these processes by using repeated, task-specific practice to support the return of useful abilities.
Repeated, task-specific practice connects rehabilitation with the abilities a person needs to regain. It focuses work on meaningful functions such as movement, daily activities, language, swallowing, or cognition. Consistent practice also supports adaptation in surviving neural networks, helping convert neuroplastic change into improved function and greater independence.
Recovery patterns help tailor treatment to the abilities that require support, including physical, cognitive, emotional, and communication functions. Planning can then combine appropriate rehabilitation approaches with repeated, task-specific practice and compensatory strategies. This individualized focus supports goals of improved function and independence while recognizing that recovery involves more than one biological process.
Physical therapy addresses movement, occupational therapy supports daily activities, and speech therapy can target language, swallowing, and cognition. Together, these approaches cover distinct but connected consequences of stroke. They can also help patients develop compensatory strategies, allowing rehabilitation to address both recovery of abilities and practical ways to manage persistent difficulties.
Individualized treatment planning uses recovery patterns to determine which areas need emphasis rather than applying an identical program to every patient. Physical, cognitive, emotional, and communication abilities may require different combinations of therapy and compensatory strategies. This tailoring matters because rehabilitation aims not only to improve specific functions but also to support independence and long-term neurological care.
Post-stroke Recovery provides a clinical and research framework for studying function and independence after stroke. In medicine, recovery patterns can inform treatment planning, while research can examine rehabilitation technologies, biomarkers, and therapies designed to enhance neural repair. These lines of investigation connect observed functional outcomes with efforts to improve long-term neurological care.