Total cost of stroke to the United States: estimated at about $43 billion per year
Direct costs for medical care and therapy: estimated at about $28 billion per year
Indirect costs from lost productivity and other factors: estimated at about $15 billion per year
Average cost of care for a patient up to 90 days after a stroke: $15,000
For 10 percent of patients, cost of care for the first 90 days after a stroke: $35,000
Percentage of direct cost of care for the first 90 days:
Initial hospitalization = 43 percent
Rehabilitation = 16 percent
Physician costs = 14 percent
Hospital readmission = 14 percent
Medications and other expenses = 13 percent.
The Effects of a Stroke (from the National Stroke Association):
10 percent of stroke survivors recover almost completely
25 percent recover with minor impairments
40 percent experience moderate to severe impairments that require special care
10 percent require care in a nursing home or other long-term facility
15 percent die shortly after the stroke.
In addition, approximately 14 percent of stroke survivors experience a second stroke in the first year following a stroke.
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Among stroke survivors, 55-75% will continue to have impairments in the upper extremity despite intensive rehabilitation. However recent technology advances are providing hope to even patients with chronic (long term) hand movement impairments. Quality of life is dependent on healthy hand function. Numerous orthopedic and neurological disease and injuries lead to hand impairments that affect hand function and decrease quality of life.
The objective of Physical rehabilitation is to return the patients performance of everyday functional and vocational tasks to their pre injury level and the main element of Physical rehabilitation is intensive active exercise practice.
The HandTutor is a glove and dedicated rehabilitation software that uses biofeedback to improve hand function. The HandTutor encourages patients to perform exercises customized to their finger and wrist movement impairment. Doing customized exercises in a motivating environment ensures that the patient is encouraged and motivated to continue intensive exercise practice. The HandTutor is used in hospitals and community clinics and through tele-rehabilitation. Indications also Orthopedic hand/ arm surgery.
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