Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

lack of visibility for stroke survivors

This was a great article on the lack of visibility for stroke survivors.
Bringing stroke out of the shadows
Shame, lack of attention still surround disease despite its prevalence
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-stroke-20101028,0,4151798.story

My take on this is that not until survivors get into positions of power in the stroke associations and the World Stroke Organization will visibility change. The other unmentioned problem is that stroke is seen as an old persons disease and they just need to pass the time until they die.

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