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.

Friday, May 13, 2011

brain scan for Parkinsons

I know this is not directly related to anything stroke. But I did ask my doctor if I was more likely to get Parkinsons as a result of the stroke, he said no but I don't trust anything he said because he really knew nothing about stroke or stroke rehab.
http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/12/a-portrait-of-parkinsons-disease/
selected paragraphs:
The procedure depends on a radioactive drug, ioflupane, approved in January by the Food and Drug Administration. Parkinson’s disease is characterized by diminishing supplies of dopamine, neurotransmitters in the brain linked to movement disorders. The new drug binds to a protein, a dopamine transporter, in a bundle of nerve fibers inside the brain, making it visible on brain scans.

Dr. Mark A. Stacy, a neurology professor and director of the movement disorders center at Duke University, said the scans provide evidence of dopamine concentration, helping physicians to decide on appropriate treatments for symptoms. The imaging technique also may help distinguish patients with essential tremor, a less acute condition than Parkinson’s disease that requires a different treatment plan.

Using something similar might be able to determine the extent of penumbra or bleed drainage damage.
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  1. TRAJune 13, 2011 at 7:47 AM

    yeah nice post great on brain mri. I like it. find more mri scans and their cost on
    http://mriscan.blogspot.com

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