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, May 16, 2011

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail

This is how doctors look at tPA. Which seems to be why whenever a problem is found the first thought is to fix it. This is the reason for trying  to increase stroke centers that can diagnose ischemic strokes faster. This leaves out the 15% who are bleeders and also the ones that didn't respond to tPA.
http://oc1dean.blogspot.com/2011/04/most-stroke-patients-not-getting-clot.html
And with that reasoning we got the timeframe increased from 3 to 4.5 hours rather than realizing that maybe  we should start looking for new and better interventions.

From Wiktionary:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/if_all_you_have_is_a_hammer,_everything_looks_like_a_nail
EtymologyLikely traditional. In this form, perhaps from Abraham Maslow, The Psychology of Science, 1966, p. 15 and his earlier book Abraham H. Maslow (1962), Toward a Psychology of Being:
I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
Similar concept by Abraham Kaplan, The Conduct of Inquiry: Methodology for Behavioral Science, 1964, page 28:
I call it the law of the instrument, and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
[edit] Proverbif all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
1.With limited tools, single-minded people apply them inappropriately or indiscriminately
2.If a person is familiar with a certain, single subject/has with them a certain, single instrument, they may have a confirmation bias to believe that it is the answer to/involved in everything

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