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NCcareLINK Community Post-Stroke Resource Database

https://www.nccarelink.gov/
NC CareLink Background Flyer

Use the website to search for local community stroke resources, or to enter your own agency into the database! Users can search by health topic (stroke), keyword, and location (statewide, county, city, zip code, or address). The website database is a great reference for community members and stroke health care providers.



Management of Adult Stroke Rehabilitation Care : A Clinical Practice Guideline


Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Study


The Interactive Metronome Study at East Carolina University

Click here to download Interactive Metronome Study Brochure.

Department of Occupational Therapy
www.ecu.edu/ot

Title of Study: The Examination of Upper Extremity Movement Smoothness
following Stroke post Intervention with Interactive Metronome®

What is the Interactive Metronome®?

The Interactive Metronome® (IM) combines the concept of a musical metronome with a patented technology program that accurately measures, assesses and improves a person’s rhythm and timing. It is an advanced assessment & treatment program developed to improve the processing abilities that affect motor planning and sequencing, which are central to human activity. This improvement, we hope, is extended in one’s daily activities in self care.

    IM addresses:
  1. Brain timing
  2. Rhythmicity
  3. Synchronicity
  4. Increasing the speed and coordination of informational signals within the brain
  5. Improving the processing abilities that affect attention, motor planning, and sequencing
  6. Coordination

What do we hope to learn?

The purpose of this research study is to understand if participating in an occupational therapy intervention which uses IM treatment as a modality, has a positive effect on one’s motor abilities. The information from this study will help therapists better develop effective treatment plans for individuals who have difficulty performing their self care tasks.

What do we need from you?

As a participant in the study, you will complete 2 standard rehabilitation evaluations used to determine how effective you use your arms and hands. These set a baseline for use to see if there are improvements after participating in the research treatment sessions. These evaluations take about 30 minutes and ask you to move your arm and pick up and move simple objects. They will help the researchers measure the amount of movement your have in the arm, fingers, and hand. You will then be asked to participate in six Interactive Metronome® treatment sessions. Upon completing these sessions you will be asked to return to the OT Lab for a repeat of the two evaluations you took to establish your baseline scores.

How Can I Participate?

This study needs volunteers and help. Please contact the Dr. Leonard Trujillo or Annette Jones, OTR/L for information on how to get involved or to participate in the study.

Leonard Trujillo
252-744-6195 phone
252-744-6198 fax
trujillol@ecu.edu

Annette Jones
252-531-7011
jonesanne@ecu.edu

For more rehabilitation resources (including care giver resources), please visit the Recovery page.