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, February 16, 2011

White Matter of the brain

It took me four years to figure this out. The gray matter(cerebrum) is only a couple of millimeters thick. 6 cell-layers thick. This could have been solved years ago by my doctors giving me a 3d map of the brain All the stuff under it is just neurons connecting to each other. So I have to assume that my MCA infarct killed off a lot of those neurons too. And since no one has any clue what the connections went to, it finally starts to make sense that doctors don't give you a damage diagnosis, they let the therapists figure out the deficits by trial and error.
Pictures here:
http://health.allrefer.com/health/white-matter-of-the-brain-gray-and-white-matter-of-the-brain.html

This does now start to explain why my sensation is not that good, the sensory cortex probably routed thru what is now dead white matter and is having a hard time getting the neurons to reconnect.
Knowing this doesn't really help me plan out my recovery but it will make more sense of some of the targeted neural growth factors.
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