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 14, 2011

observational study, trial or experiment?

I also have not distinguished between these. From GarySchwitzer, director of the Duke Stroke Center at Duke University Medical Center  and his blog on
http://getbetterhealth.com/coffee-and-stroke-another-study-the-media-got-wrong/2011.03.14

Coffee And Stroke: Another Study The Media Got Wrong

It was a big study, but an observational study. Not a trial. Not an experiment. And, as we say so many times on this website that you could almost join along with the chorus, observational studies have inherent limitations that should always be mentioned in stories. They can’t prove cause and effect. They can show a strong statistical association, but they can’t prove cause and effect. So you can’t prove benefit or risk reduction. And stories should say that.

So be forewarned and ask your doctors what these mean.
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  1. Glynis JollyMarch 14, 2011 at 10:25 PM

    I love coffee so I'll just keep drinking it. I do know that aspirin is good for thinning the blood. That's why it works to relieve headaches. Anacin is just aspirin with caffeine. It works just like aspirin but works a little faster and makes me feel a little more alert. Sounds like a good thing for a stroke survivor to me.

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