International Journal of Stroke

16 Dec 2019

In 2016 Julie Bernhardt and distinguished colleagues around the world, experts in all areas of recovery and rehabilitation developed a series of consensus papers based on roundtable discussions on moving rehabilitation forward, agreed definitions and a shared vision, improving development, monitoring and reporting, enhancing the alignment of preclinical and clinical stroke recovery and standardising measurement of sensorimotor recovery and more. In the latest edition of the International Journal of Stroke we publish the second series of roundtable papers.

Moving stroke rehabilitation research evidence into clinical practice

Consensus-based core recommendations from the Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable - Find out more

Cognition in stroke rehabilitation and recovery research

Consensus-based core recommendations from the second Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable - Find out more

Standardized measurement of quality of upper limb movement after stroke

Consensus-based core recommendations from the Second Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable - Find out more

A stroke recovery trial development framework

Consensus-based core recommendations from the Second Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable - Find out more

Editorial written by the funding bodies

An exciting element of the current series is the editorial written by the funding bodies. Kate Holmes, Dale Corbett and Sharon McGowan represent UK Stroke, Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery and National Stroke Foundation, Australia.

‘These recommendations are very helpful to funders who want to raise the quality of research being funded. We can help ensure this by implementing these new standards and recommendations in our guidance for applicants, and in the peer review and assessment of research, to enable us to make optimally informed funding decisions.’

Kate Holmes, Dale Corbett and Sharon McGowan

Implementing the SRRR taskforce recommendations to transform stroke recovery research

We have a new Editor-in-Chief of IJS

We are really excited that Professor Hugh Markus has been appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of IJS. He’ll come on board at the beginning of January. We are so very lucky to have had the leadership of Professor Geoffrey Donnan over the last 14 years who has taken the journal from strength to strength! Our current IF is 4.4 and has been growing steadily!

Get reading and listening with IJS!

About 10 years ago cancer was incorporated into an ACT in the Japanese legislature called the ‘Diet’. Having a disease acknowledged in this way creates far better pathways for public health education, funding, management, hospital care, rehabilitation options and more. Inspired by this exciting precedence a series of stroke-related societies including the Japan Stroke Association, Japan Stroke Society, Japanese Circulation Society, and the Japan Heart Foundation formed a lobby group which included concerned citizens, patient groups, family members, academic and professional societies.

Collectively they pulled together the threads to develop the framework for the Stroke and Cardiovascular Disease Control Act. After repeated petitions to Diet members and numerous public rallies on December 10, 2018, the Act passed the Diet and will come into legislation on the 1^st of December 2019.

Carmen Lahiff-Jenkins, the Managing Editor of IJS has threaded a narrative podcast together with a series of interviews with the WSO International Development Officer, Sarah Belson, engaging and passionate stroke professionals neurologist Dr Nakayama and cardiologist Dr Komuro; and patient collaborators, Mr Kawakatsu and Julia the translator, and Bev Hopper and advocate and patient support Gillian Mason.

This unique and exciting story starts in Australia and travels across the world to Japan. It highlights how important policy is and how it shapes the health care of country. For an in-depth view on this mini health revolution visit our podcast host site https://ijspodcasts.podbean.com

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