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

Stroke Rehabilitation: What is the point?

This is an article by Sarah Tyson from 1994.
senior lecturer in physiotherapy, Department of Health Studies, Brunel University College, Borough Road, Isleworth, Middlesex
She seems to have channeled Hipprocrates from 2400 years ago, 'It is impossible to cure a severe case of apoplexy and difficult to cure a mild one.'

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B7CVK-4HCDTJ0-3&_user=10&_coverDate=08%2F31%2F1995&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=gateway&_origin=gateway&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1678658776&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=c026b31aff4059214885ae156232ebd0&searchtype=a

I am certainly not going to buy it for $31.50
Summary here:

Rehabilitation has been defined as the restoration of optimal physical, psychological, and emotional ability. The ineffectiveness of stroke rehabilitation in the light of these terms is highlighted, and the experience of people with stroke after discharge is described. Reasons for the apparent lack of true rehabilitation are suggested, and the dichotomy between health care professionals' and patients' goals and perceptions is discussed.

Key Words: Stroke rehabilitation; physical outcome; social activity; psychological outcome

This article is adapted from one presented at the Wessex Regional Postgraduate Continuing Medical Education Programme in Elderly Care, 1994.

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