Horse-riding therapy may boost recovery after stroke, study findings suggest according to : horsetalk

Long-Term Improvements After Multimodal Rehabilitation in Late Phase After Stroke: A Randomized Controlled TrialLina Bunketorp-Käll, PhD; Åsa Lundgren-Nilsson, PhD; Hans Samuelsson, PhD; Tulen Pekny, MD; Karin Blomvé, MD; Marcela Pekna, MD, PhD; Milos Pekny, MD, PhD; Christian Blomstrand, MD, PhD; Michael Nilsson, MD, PhDStroke. Survivors were randomly assigned to receive either rhythm-and-music therapy, horse-riding therapy, or conventional care (the control group). In rhythm-and-music therapy, patients listen to music while performing rhythmic and cognitively demanding hand and feet movements to visual and audio cues. More than half the stroke survivors who undertook horse-riding therapy as part of a study felt it had benefited them in a range of ways, researchers report. The therapeutic effects of horse riding and rhythm-and-music therapies were individually assessed in the study, the findings of which have been reported in the American Heart Association's journal Stroke.




Long-Term Improvements After Multimodal Rehabilitation in Late Phase After Stroke: A Randomized Controlled TrialLina Bunketorp-Käll, PhD; Åsa Lundgren-Nilsson, PhD; Hans Samuelsson, PhD; Tulen Pekny, MD; Karin Blomvé, MD; Marcela Pekna, MD, PhD; Milos Pekny, MD, PhD; Christian Blomstrand, MD, PhD; Michael Nilsson, MD, PhDStroke. Survivors were randomly assigned to receive either rhythm-and-music therapy, horse-riding therapy, or conventional care (the control group). In rhythm-and-music therapy, patients listen to music while performing rhythmic and cognitively demanding hand and feet movements to visual and audio cues. More than half the stroke survivors who undertook horse-riding therapy as part of a study felt it had benefited them in a range of ways, researchers report. The therapeutic effects of horse riding and rhythm-and-music therapies were individually assessed in the study, the findings of which have been reported in the American Heart Association's journal Stroke.

Heart failure: Stem cell therapy may worsen heart damage

Autologous stem cell therapy using cardiac stem cells could be harmful for patients with heart failure. Stem cell therapy is often a "last resort" treatment for patients with end-stage heart failure. One treatment that is gaining popularity among patients with end-stage heart failure is autologous stem cell therapy. Learn how a muscle stem cell patch could help to treat heart failure. Researchers found that using patients' own cardiac stem cells to repair damaged heart tissue may not only be ineffective, but that the stem cells may also develop inflammatory properties that cause further heart damage.


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