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.

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Plugged arteries to the brain - Stroke risk

I have probably answered dozens of questions like this on stroke forums. The medical staff is doing a lousy job explaining this.

Your doctor is quite remiss in not telling you about the physiology of the brain. There is a Circle_of_Willis that supplies blood to the brain. That is fed by four arteries, two carotid and two vertebral. Just because one or more arteries are blocked does not directly cause a stroke. The usual case is that the narrowed artery tears, clots and the clot lets go, traveling to the brain. You normally do not clean out a totally plugged artery because of the high risk of sending debris to the brain. I had a totally blocked right carotid artery for four years now and I don't worry about getting a stroke from that. Ask your doctor about this to see if s/he understands basic brain matters. I have heard of survivors who developed feeder arteries around the blockages.
But then I am a stroke-addled survivor, so don't listen to what I have to say, your doctor is infallible, listen to them.
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  1. Barb PolanJanuary 12, 2011 at 7:01 PM

    My PCP told me exactly this - that there are lots of ancillary paths for blood to get to the brain - twice he has drawn a diagram of the Circle of Willis for me - and he said that the clot in my carotid artery responsible for my current ordeal is now a stable part of the system, firmly attached and not about to throw off another piece.

    You are no more stroke-addled than I am - and my executive functions are working quite well now, unless I'm too addled to know otherwise.:)

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