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, August 28, 2011

You can't improve what you can't measure

It comes from a remark attributed to GALILEO, who said 'Count what is
countable, measure what is measurable. What is not measurable, make
measurable'."
Boy does this describe the brain and stroke effects and rehabilitation. We don't know exactly how neuroplasticity works so we can't figure out how to consistently duplicate it. This is where we hear the canard, ' All strokes are different, all stroke recoveries are different' If we can't measure the recovery we can't improve it.
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  1. barbpolanAugust 29, 2011 at 3:39 PM

    "canard" is a good word for that damn phrase, which every doctor and therapist has said to me. When I'm discouraged by other people's progress being faster than mine, even my husband says it's because of the "size" of my stroke compared to the others and tacks on the worthless "all strokes are different."

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  2. oc1deanAugust 30, 2011 at 9:57 PM

    Definition of CANARD
    1a : a false or unfounded report or story; especially : a fabricated report b : a groundless rumor or belief
    2: an airplane with horizontal stabilizing and control surfaces in front of supporting surfaces; also : a small airfoil in front of the wing of an aircraft that can increase the aircraft's performance


    So Barb, a pusher aircraft?

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