My other thoughts on what needs to be done is restructure the way stroke information is provided. Currently it goes to the medical professionals in the hope that they will give it to the survivors and caregivers. That model is obviously not working as evidenced by the numerous stroke forums out there and all the unanswered questions being asked. Like the breakfast saying for bacon and eggs - the chicken is involved but the pig is committed. The medical staff is involved but the survivor is comitted. By changing the focus to the survivor, the survivor will make sure that the medical teams know what the possibilities for rehabilitation are out there and force the medical staff to keep up. On a similar vein there needs to be an accounting of all the various stroke rehab options out there and see what their efficacy is so we can decide what we want to try. As far as research is concerned, there should be a 10-20 year longitudinal study following the survivors seeing what works and what doesn't, very boring research but we need facts. In 2400 years we have not come very far as this Hippocrates saying demostrates. Hippocratic dictum that ‘It is impossible to cure a severe attack of apoplexy and difficult to cure a mild one’ .
Once again I am trying for an impossible task, it will just take a little longer to accomplish.
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