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.

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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, February 23, 2011

Top 19 stroke rehab centers

their title is off by one.
http://www.faqs.org/shareranks/12181,--20-Top-Stroke-Rehab-Centers
1. Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 
72.2

2.  TIRR – The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research, Houston, TX 
42.3

3.  University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA 
37.7

4.  Mayo clinic, Rochester, MN 
30.7

5.  Craig Hospital, Englewood, CO 
26.7

6.  Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, West Orange, NJ

7.  Rusk Institute, NYU Medical Center, NY 

8.  Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA

9. Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA 

10.  Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH

11. Rancho Los Amigos National rehabilitation Center, Downey, CA

12. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD

13. National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington DC

14. University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI 

15. Moss Rehabilitation Hospital, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA

16. Shepherd Center, Atlanta, GA

17. Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, CA

18.  Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA 
19.  UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 

I have no idea if this is anything more than  name recognition. Especially since there is no standard definition of stroke damage to be able to compare recoveries. I would ask them my questions for your stroke rehab doctor/therapist if you do decide to go to one of these.
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  1. Glynis JollyFebruary 25, 2011 at 4:24 PM

    I went to number 5. Yes, it is a good place. When I started there I was in a wheelchair. One month later I was an outpatient in a half brace and walking with a cane. I had learned many tricks on how to do things one handed and my ability to spell had come back.

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 12, 2013 at 10:19 PM

    Dear Dean: You should definitely add to your list of stroke rehab centers the following: Progressive Strength Recovery, Inc. 1150 Main St., Irvine, CA 92614. Website www.progressive strengthrecoveryinc.com. I sent this to you before. Tom Wisenbaker is not a therapist, he is a strength trainer for handicapped people. You absolutely have to add him to your list. Believe me I've tried practically every therapy out there since my stroke in 2003.

    Sincerely, Ralph Edsell

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