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.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Cramer says clock is ticking for post-stroke therapy, rehabilitation

I know this guy is famous but part of what he says is not supported by research.

Cramer says clock is ticking for post-stroke therapy, rehabilitation


Robots may extend the post-stroke race against the clock, according to a presentation by UC Irvine neurologist Steven Cramer, MD, during a meeting of the American
Neurological Association.
While minutes count in the race to treat stroke patients with drugs or interventional techniques to eliminate a clot, Cramer says the clock also ticks for a period in which combined restorative therapies and rehabilitation efforts should be initiated to achieve maximum effect.
Comparing brain plasticity after stroke to that seen in early development, Dr. Cramer emphasized the need for pairing restorative therapy with behavioral conditioning, and doing it all at the optimal time.
Rehabilitation can include the use of robots, such as UC Irvine’s Hand-Wrist Assisting Robotic Device, which has been shown to improve arm and hand coordination after a stroke.
Cramer suggests striking while the iron is hot. And he warns, it may not be hot very long after a stroke.
This is where I think Cramer may be wrong'

Robot-Assisted Post Stroke Therapy Beneficial Even for Late StartersLink




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