One treatment, multiple targets: Prism adaptation and left brain stroke rehabilitation

中风是美国成人残疾的最常见原因，急性中风后护理是其中之一。 增长最快的支出类别。退伍军人经历的功能残疾 中风和有限的康复资源，突出了识别的重要性， 针对一个以上恢复目标的可行治疗方法。目前，认知和运动 损伤和疼痛，通过单独和特定模式的治疗途径来解决。 因此，退伍军人中风幸存者很容易受到分散的跨专业护理 过程中，治疗不足的一些残疾条件和未能协调协同 干预措施。这种分散的护理过程导致住院时间更长，福尔斯的风险更大 和事故，不完全恢复和生活质量差。我们在这个项目中的总体目标 是采用棱镜适应治疗（PAT），一个10天的方案报告，以提高空间 功能，运动恢复，减少中风后疼痛。虽然空间运动感觉 损伤在左脑和右脑中风中都很常见，以前对PAT的研究只有 包括右脑中风幸存者。广泛实施PAT的一个潜在障碍， 多靶点治疗在脑卒中康复中的可行性尚缺乏证据评估 和治疗过程中的患者与左脑中风谁往往经历共病 语言障碍（失语症）和记忆障碍。我们提出的第一个研究PAT在 亚急性左脑卒中失语症和记忆障碍患者， 研究使用适应性PAT程序（目标1）和适应性空间运动的可行性， 感官评估（目标2），这是进行全面临床试验的先决条件。 此外，以前的脑成像研究表明，病变模式可以用来 确定对PAT反应最佳的患者。因此，我们也寻求建立一个临床 一种可访问的、可靠的病变位置分类方法（目标3），是广泛的 实施关于PAT患者选择的临床指南。在这项研究中，我们 将收集和分析可行性的四个关键领域的数据，包括可接受性， 执行、适应和有限的效力。我们的长期目标是在这两个领域实施PAT 左右脑中风康复，同时改善认知和运动功能， 和痛苦.通过证明适应性评估和治疗程序的可行性， 左脑卒中患者失语及记忆障碍的可行性和可靠性 临床上可获得的病变分类方法，我们将开辟一条道路， PAT作为脑卒中康复多靶点治疗研究这条研究路线 提高目前分散的护理流程的效率和有效性的潜力 并显著改善数千名退伍军人的功能，独立性和生活质量 中风相关的残疾。

Stroke is the most frequent cause of US adult disability, and post-acute stroke care is among the fastest-growing expense categories. The functional disability experienced by Veterans after stroke, and the limited rehabilitation resources available, highlight the importance of identifying feasible treatments acting on more than one recovery target. Currently, cognitive and motor impairments, and pain, are addressed with separate and modality-specific treatment pathways. As a result, Veteran stroke survivors are vulnerable to a fragmented interprofessional care process, with under-treatment of some disabling conditions and failure to coordinate synergistic interventions. This fragmented care process leads to longer hospital stays, greater risk of falls and accidents, incomplete recovery and poor quality of life. Our overall objective in this project is to employ prism adaptation treatment (PAT), a 10-day regimen reported to enhance spatial function, motor recovery, and reduce post-stroke pain. Although spatial-motor-sensory impairments are common in both left and right brain stroke, previous studies of PAT have only included right-brain stroke survivors. A potential barrier to broad implementation of PAT as a multi-target treatment in stroke rehabilitation, is lack of evidence for the feasibility of assessment and treatment procedures in patients with left-brain stroke who often experience co-morbid language disorder (aphasia) and memory impairments. We propose the first study of PAT in subacute left-brain stroke patients with aphasia and memory deficits to systematically investigate the feasibility of using adapted PAT procedures (Aim 1) and adapted spatial-motor- sensory assessments (Aim 2), which is a prerequisite to conducting a full-scale clinical trial. Additionally, previous brain-mapping studies have shown that lesion patterns can be used to identify patients who respond optimally to PAT. Thus, we also seek to establish a clinically accessible, reliable way of categorizing lesion location (Aim 3), a prerequisite for broad implementation of clinical guidelines about patient selection for PAT. In the proposed study, we will collect and analyze data on four key areas of feasibility, including acceptability, implementation, adaptation and limited efficacy. Our long-term goal is to implement PAT in both left and right-brain stroke rehabilitation to simultaneously improve cognitive and motor function, and pain. By demonstrating the feasibility of adapted assessment and treatment procedures in left-brain stroke patients with aphasia and memory impairment, and the feasibility and reliability of clinically accessible lesion categorization methods, we will open a path to a full-scale investigation of PAT as a multi-target treatment stroke rehabilitation. This line of research has the potential to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of currently fragmented care processes and significantly improve functioning, independence and quality of life in thousands of Veterans with stroke-related disabilities.