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, April 20, 2011

nicotine and stroke rehab part 2

I originally posted a favorable view of nicotine here: http://oc1dean.blogspot.com/2010/10/nicotine-and-stroke-rehab.html

The latest shows a hardening of the arteries.
http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?type=article&article_id=218393007
More than Addiction
It's well known that smoking cigarettes is bad for health. But exactly how each component of tobacco smoke contributes to illness is still being researched. Nicotine, for instance, is known as the drug in cigarettes that addicts people. But new research by molecular biologist Daniel Catanzaro of Weill Cornell Medical College finds evidence that nicotine, itself, causes circulatory problems.
"There is a very strong potential to accelerate the development of hardening of the arteries which can lead to cardiovascular disease including heart attacks," says Catanzaro, a research associate professor of physiology and biophysics in medicine.

So this was smoke-based, would a nicotine pill be better and not have these side effects?
A perfect question for your doctors, is nicotine more likely to help you recover or cause another stroke or heart attack?   If they don't know the answer ask when their clinical trials start. Every stroke doctor should be perforning trials, start nagging them.
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  1. Glynis JollyApril 20, 2011 at 3:34 PM

    Nicotine isn't good for anyone. However, stimulants are used often to regenerate nerves. Maybe caffeine is a better choice.

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