Deans' stroke musings: Sunburn and stroke rehab

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, June 5, 2011

Sunburn and stroke rehab

This weekend was nice warm and sunny, I needed to go to a graduation party. so I rolled down my drivers side window, took off my watch and hung my left arm out the window. This is to overstimulate the nerves by having air rush over it., under the theory that sensation is helpful in getting back motor movement. Because of spasticity this is only tolerable for about 30 minutes. So in those 30 minutes I sunburned my arm, not enough to be painful and certainly not enough to get heat waves from black body radiation that night. This is not something your therapists would ever recommend but since I am my own therapist now I will continue to do stupid things like that.