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, April 25, 2011

multitasking and stroke rehab

I know lots of us want to get back to multitasking but if you believe the research we never were able to do it.

http://www.ccbi.cmu.edu/news/sandiegouniontribune-dualtask.html
Scientists have bad news for people who think they can deftly drive a car while gabbing on a cell phone.
The first study using magnetic resonance images of brain activity to compare what happens in people's heads when they do one complex task, as opposed to two tasks at a time, reveals a disquieting fact: The brain appears to have a finite amount of space for tasks requiring attention.

The neurologica blog gives us this statement; Most people cannot effectively multitask, even if they think they can. Only about 2.5% of people can genuinely multitask – perform two demanding cognitive tasks simultaneously without both suffering.
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=3123

And this famous test pretty much proves you can't, I failed it. from Prof. Simons's YouTube channel;
http://www.youtube.com/profsimons select the selective attention test.

Rebecca Dutton blogs about it here:
http://homeafterstroke.blogspot.com/2011/03/only-magic-bullet-ive-found.html
basically as a stroke survivor you have to stop multitasking.

My most obvious occurrence of this was being told vocally by my wife to pick up 3 items from the grocery store. I ended up having to go to the store 3 times to get all the items.
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  1. Rebecca DuttonApril 26, 2011 at 10:29 AM

    Now if only we could convince teenagers that they are not invincible when they drive and text.

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