New Research Project: Boosting Stroke Recovery With Brain Stimulation - Who Responds Best To This Therapy?

Brenton_Hordacre
Brenton_Hordacreon Thursday, February 22 2018
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We are looking for people who have experienced stroke that has affected their upper limb to participate in a new research project conducted at the University of South Australia. This study will use brain stimulation as a treatment to boost the response to therapy targeting the upper limb. We are aiming to understand why some people respond strongly to this therapy and whether we can better individualise brain stimulation treatment to each person.

 

Participation in this project involves attending experimental sessions at the University of South Australia and the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute. Participants will be provided with an individualised therapy program to improve function of the affected arm. There is no cost for participating in this project and funds are available to reimburse participants time.

 

More information can be found here: https://enableme.org.au/Community/What-Helps/t/Targeting-brain-stimulation-therapy-in-stroke ;

 

Brenton Hordacre (brenton.hordacre@unisa.edu.au; 08 83021286)

5 Responses
Adrian avatar
Adrian

Hello Brenton,

 

In this community a please and thank you would be appropriate and would go down well. I'd love to participate but I'm in NSW.

 

Thanks,

 

Adrian

 

 

Rosie avatar
Rosie

Hi Brenton,

 

I'm interested as well - however I'm in NSW like Adrian.

 

Thanks from 

Rosie

Brenton_Hordacre avatar
Brenton_Hordacre

Hi Adrian and Rosie,

 

Thanks for the quick replies. Apologies that we are only conducting the work in SA. If you are ever in Adelaide, we would certainly love to have you involved and there is some capacity to cover travel costs, however I doubt this would cover the full cost of traveling from Sydney to Adelaide. Please let me know if that is something you want to discuss further.

 

Alternatively, I was hoping to post updates of the project here, so please feel free to follow along throughout the year if this is something that is of interest to you both. I have some preliminary data that looks really interesting and is almost published in a journal. I can provide a summary once that is finalised - hopefully within a couple of weeks.

 

I also have a contact in Sydney who is interested in similar work. I could enquire whether she is currently running any studies and let you know?

 

Adrian - sorry about the lack of please and thankyou's. I was trying to provide the necessary information as concisely as I could and overlooked those courtesies. Thanks for letting me know and I will see if I can edit the post.

 

Kind regards,

Brenton

Brenton_Hordacre avatar
Brenton_Hordacre

Hi Adrian and Rosie,

 

Thanks for the quick replies. Apologies that we are only conducting the work in SA. If you are ever in Adelaide, we would certainly love to have you involved and there is some capacity to cover travel costs, however I doubt this would cover the full cost of traveling from Sydney to Adelaide. Please let me know if that is something you want to discuss further.

 

Alternatively, I was hoping to post updates of the project here, so please feel free to follow along throughout the year if this is something that is of interest to you both. I have some preliminary data that looks really interesting and is almost published in a journal. I can provide a summary once that is finalised - hopefully within a couple of weeks.

 

I also have a contact in Sydney who is interested in similar work. I could enquire whether she is currently running any studies and let you know?

 

Adrian - sorry about the lack of please and thankyou's. I was trying to provide the necessary information as concisely as I could and overlooked those courtesies. Thanks for letting me know and I will see if I can edit the post.

 

Kind regards,

Brenton

Adrian avatar
Adrian

Good on you Brenton, sometimes researchers need a gentle prod on their bedside manner. Always happy to be involved and will follow with interest, good luck with it to you and participants.

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