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.

Saturday, November 13, 2010

No boundary stroke rehab

I loved this, it came from from penngwyn on stroke network.


But the reason I mention that here is that one of my classmates was a doctor who turned out to be a specialist in rehabilitation. He told me that in his experience, the most powerful tool in recovery/rehabilitation was to convince ones brain that there was no boundary, no impairment or limitation. "Act like you can do everything, and your brain and body will find ways to make it work." he said.
This corresponds to a saying that is engraved on a plaque above my wifes' desk.
'What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?'

1 comment:

  1. I like that quote very much. I see such a mixture of people who are just giving up on life and others who are "Doers" who get on with life one way or another.

    Linda
    http://leadingahealthylife.blogspot.com/

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