Efektivitas Mirror Therapy terhadap Kemampuan Bicara Pasien Pasca Stroke dengan Afasia Motorik

Kerusakan otak yang disebabkan stroke dapat menunjukkan geala secara permanen seperti kesulitan berbicara atau afasia motoric. Latihan gerakan lidah, bibir dan mengucapkan kata-kata didepan cermin adalah salah satu terapi yang dapat dilakukan. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui efektivitas mirror therapy terhadap kemampuan bicara pasien pasca stroke dengan afasia motorik di Poli Saraf RSUD. Dr.H. Moch Ansari Saleh Banjarmasin. Desain penelitian quasi experiment dengan one group pretest posttest design yang dilakukan selama 2 minggu dengan 6 kali digunakan dalam penelitian ini. Sampel dalam penelitian ini sebanyak 15 responden yang diambil dengan teknik purposive sampling. Selain kaca, instrument Derby Functional Communication Scale (DFCS) digunakan dalam penelitian ini. Hasil penelitian didapatkan perbedaan nilai tingkat kemampuan bicaranya yang signifikan sebelum (nilai = 8,73) dan sesudah perlakukan (nilai= 18,67). Hasil uji paired t-test diperoleh nilai p-value 0,000 < α 0,05. Simpulan dalam penelitian ini yaitu terdapat efektivitas penggunaan mirror therapy terhadap kemampuan bicara pasien pasca stroke dengan afasia motoric

Blood-mimicking delivery in polygonal structure of inner quadrupletip microneedle with valveless micro-pump

This paper presents a titanium quadrupletip micro-needle integrated with a micropump with different inner designs, length and diameter of the micro-channels to measure and maximize the velocity flow in the micro-needle as blood delivered into human body. Titanium is used as the material of the micro-needle which are also the common material in manufacturing of micro-needle. The advancement of micro-needle technologies is improved in penetrating human outermost skin, stratum corneum and further to human blood vessels. The micro-needles with channel inner design of circular, square, hexagon, and dodecagon with quadruple tip designs are drawn with inner diameter parameter of 150μm and 100μm with two different channel length which are 10mm and 25mm. The characteristics of blood delivery in geometrically changed inner designs affect the output velocity in microneedle when the micropump is operating. The results showed that, when it is pumped at 0.04m/s, the blood velocity improved by 5.6% than when the pump is increased by 30% of its capacity. This is due to the backflow generated in the micropump