Flint Rehabilitation Device Article Analysis

The patient was a 51-year-old male with a history of hypertension and diabetes mellitus that was brought to the hospital with left sided weakness. A moderate-sized acute hemorrhage centered in the right thalamus region with surrounding minimal edema, mass effect and intraventricular hemorrhage was found on his CT scan. A burr hole was drilled through the frontal bone to complete external ventricular drainage at the patient’s bedside. At the time of this internet search, he was stable and the focus was on increasing function of his left side. The patient showed signs of knowledge deficit by his stating that he will never have movement of his left leg or arm again. In order to provide education to improve his outlook and give him motivation and dedication to his physical and occupational therapy exercises, the phrase “Recovering from a stroke” was entered into the Google search engine. The second result of the search was the article, “How to Recover from Stroke in 13 Steps,” by Flint Rehabilitation Devices.
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Despite being fairly current, the credibility of the Flint Rehabilitation Devices website is suspicious. There is no byline for the article, “How to recover from Stroke in 13 steps,” or any other article. One has to go to the history portion of the website to learn about Flint Rehabilitation Devices authorship and even there, it is unclear. The history portion of the website says the company was initially started by Nizan Friedman, Ph.D and Dan Zondervan, Ph.D., but there is no way to tell if they are still with the company and or if either one of them wrote the article. Furthermore, it does not say in what specialty they have their PhDs. LinkedIn is where it was found that they both have degrees in engineering. With regards to this, they are not subject matter experts like perhaps a neurologist, neurosurgeon or nurse on a stroke unit might