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.

Monday, March 7, 2011

homunculus and stroke rehab

motor homunculus (Latin: little man).
After finally seeing my MRI and the damaged areas in my brain I started looking for a brain map to see what actually was destroyed and came across the motor and sensory homunculus maps.
Motor ones can be found here
http://www.brainconnection.com/med/medart/l/homunculus.jpg
or here
http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/i/i_06/i_06_cr/i_06_cr_mou/i_06_cr_mou_1b.jpg
or here
http://www.vis.caltech.edu/~zoltan/szeged8/img8.htm
Sensory ones are here:
http://www.amareway.org/holisticliving/06/sensory-homunculus-cortical-homunculus-motor-homunculus/

According to the researcher who looked at my MRIs the infarct did not get into the sensory map. That may be true but my senses are still weaker than they should be so I think the connection out from the sensory map may have been damaged. By looking at the motor homunculus I can now see why I could wiggle my toes 2.5 years after my event. That area of the brain was spared and just needed to find a way thru or around all the dead space.I haven't quite figured out why my facial muscles still work, looking at my MRI it looks like that area is totally gone.
Nothing here is of immediate use to your rehab but if your doctors were writing up case studies they should be using these kinds of maps to explain what was damaged. And with these strokes could be compared to each other. What a novel idea! Standardized documentation and then we could easily start statistically mapping therapies to damage.

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