It seems that this article didn't reach any of the thousands of survivors via their doctors that populate the various stroke forums out there. This just proves how pathetically information is distributed to stroke medical staff and from there to survivors, and in 10 years it hasn't gotten any better.
http://long-term-care.advanceweb.com/Article/Breakthroughs-in-Stroke-Rehabilitation-2.aspx
Until now, "there's been a certain defeatist attitude about stroke," stated Joel Stein, PhD, director of the Stroke Rehabilitation Program at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, in Boston, MA, and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. "It's been, I'm sorry. There's nothing we can do about it.' That's changing because people aren't accepting that as the end of the line."
I actually really liked that article. I thought it was a good summary and kind of an interesting historical document event though it is only 11 years old.
ReplyDeleteIt talks about several of the technologies that were developing in response to the concept of plasticity.
It is indeed shocking that there is not more progress in real life practice, or in attitude in the 11 years since this article was published.
Linda