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, August 29, 2011

The Human and Economic Burden of Poststroke Spasticity and Muscle Overactivity

God, I hope someone sends this to William M. Landau, the guy who doesn't believe spasticity needs treatment.

The Human and Economic Burden of Poststroke Spasticity and Muscle Overactivity

 
ABSTRACT
• Objective: To present an overview of the human
and economic burden of poststroke spasticity and
muscle overactivity.
• Methods: Literature review.
• Results: The burden of stroke for patients, their
caregivers, and society is enormous. Stroke can result
in markedly diminished quality of life (QOL), loss
of productivity, and considerable economic costs.
The subset of stroke patients who have poststroke
spasticity experience additional burdens. Patients
with poststroke spasticity represent at least 20% of
all stroke patients. Poststroke spasticity can manifest
in multiple ways, with potentially profound and detrimental
effects on patient function and QOL. The risk
of falling is higher among stroke patients than in the
general population, and even higher in poststroke
spasticity patients, with the consequent risk of fractures.
Estimated direct costs for poststroke spasticity
patients are 4 times higher than those for stroke
patients without residual spasticity.
• Conclusion: The burden of poststroke spasticity is
high in terms of treatment costs, QOL consequences,
caregiver burden, and the effects of comorbidities
such as falls and fractures.

Lots more at the URL.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for the article. I deal with poststroke spasticity and so frustrating when Drs. clump everyone together. I was getting better quickly right after stroke but about 6 months out spasticity started to set in and my functions decreased. Yes getting better still at 21 months but still working on muscle tone and my whole right side.

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