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.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

brain basics

And once again I have to point to what the Alzheimers association has done. Check out these diagrams of the brain including damage pictures. Why can't our doctors use something like these to demonstrate to survivors which areas need to be recovered or compensated for.
Fascinating stuff here. I could easily see a whole bunch of slides on stroke damage.
Who's going to step up and create this?
http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_4719.asp?type=eNews_footer
In the second page - supply lines this was fascinating.
With each heartbeat, arteries carry about 20 to 25 percent of your blood to your brain, where billions of cells use about 20 percent of the oxygen and fuel your blood carries.
When you are thinking hard, your brain may use up to 50 percent of the fuel and oxygen.
Since my event I am probably thinking hard 80-90% of the day. That might explain why I am exhausted all the time.
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  1. Glynis JollyMay 16, 2011 at 11:55 AM

    Actually Dean, they do have visual demonstrations of what area to a particular patient's brain is damaged. Believe it or not, you can get this type of info from state agencies.

    As for how hard your brain is working, I believe I had told you that according to my sources, the body (for us the brain) is continually trying to heal itself. That's exhausting work.

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