Deans' stroke musings: Chainsaws and stroke rehabilitation

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, July 1, 2011

Chainsaws and stroke rehabilitation

STOP READING NOW. THIS IS A JOKE AND SARCASM. DO NOT ATTEMPT ANYTHING LIKE THIS WITHOUT YOUR DOCTORS PERMISSION. My dad wanted a butternut tree cut down and I wanted to help since I wanted a lot of the wood for woodturning. Dad is 84 and shouldn't really be running a chainsaw all day long, thats what younger sons like me are for.
My help was mostly piling branches and getting the foot-long pieces I wanted out of the way. Since I can't pick up any wood with two hands I would walk back and forth dozens of times with one piece of wood in my right hand. I have a cool looking ice tongs grabber that I use to pick up the hefty chunks of wood(20-40 lbs.) This came from eBay and I just noticed that they have another for sale. My walking deteriorates with the weight pulling me on the right side but it definitely strengthens the left leg. Dad jokingly said that I should use the chainsaw as therapy, my right hand would be the trigger finger and the left hand on top basically getting lots of vibrations and either pushing down or pulling it up. I can just see the therapy disclaimer, we are not responsible if the chainsaw gets away from you and cuts off one of your limbs. Side effects: hearing loss, massive bleeding, loss of limbs, fingers, death.