Stroke shoe retrains brain
Stroke shoe retrains brain
Stroke patients who have a dragging foot are making strides with a patented portable shoe.
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0 -> new at six every year close to 800,000
3.449 -> people in the United States suffer a
4.89 -> stroke and sudden interruption and blood
7.14 -> supply to the brain many are left with a
9.389 -> dragging foot but Ursula Perry shows us
11.88 -> that now doctors are working on an
13.32 -> inexpensive way to fix their footing I
16.43 -> used to walk 3 to 5 miles a day before
19.109 -> my stroke and it would be nice if I
20.55 -> could just walk a half a mile
21.9 -> Dyanne hints is on the right track she's
24.359 -> making strides with this patented
26.279 -> portable shoe it's called the mote arum
28.8 -> eye stride device it was invented at USF
32.099 -> in Tampa these doctors have been working
34.41 -> for years just to get it right and
36.09 -> they're almost to the finish line took a
38.399 -> lot of math a lot of engineering and
40.649 -> quite a few different prototypes to get
43.469 -> it to work just right many stroke
45.18 -> patients are left with a limp because of
47.1 -> damage to their central nervous system
48.93 -> this shoe helps rewire the brain so that
51.899 -> it can correct the gait
53.43 -> doctors say it's more effective and
55.41 -> cheaper than the typical split belt
57.539 -> treadmill treatments and patients can
59.879 -> even bring this home the ice try device
62.129 -> causes one foot to move backwards while
64.17 -> they're walking and this helps to
65.7 -> exaggerate one of the feet so that it
68.85 -> becomes more asymmetric such that when
70.77 -> they take it off they have a corrected
73.92 -> gait where it's more symmetric
75.21 -> afterwards don't forget that the patient
77.61 -> is wearing the shoe on their good side
80.009 -> the she was worn on the good side so it
82.65 -> forces the bad side to compensate for
84.869 -> the irregular walking pattern so far the
87.42 -> study shows that within four weeks
89.18 -> patients can feel the difference I hope
91.89 -> is that as you keep doing this every day
93.6 -> you train you get a little bit more
95.82 -> equalized in your step length and you're
97.979 -> gonna start walking faster and that's
99.54 -> just what Diane needs so she can get
101.549 -> that pep back in her step that treadmill
104.34 -> treatment is actually very expensive and
107.28 -> it has to be done inside a doctor's
109.11 -> office they have to monitor the sessions
111.42 -> with the AI stride shoe that's not
114.03 -> necessary anymore and a patient can
115.95 -> rehab at home Ursula Perry case at 12
118.979 -> News
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgVzxxBW8GM