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, October 16, 2011

NIH Stroke Scale Training

In case you want to see how scales are determined. You can registerLinkand view the videos without being a professional member. While this is a start, what really needs to occur is to correlate the dead brain and penumbra or bleed drainage damage to this stroke scoring. That is the only way this will become reproducible.
course - NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) Certification
http://learn.heart.org/ihtml/application/student/interface.heart2/index.html
I'm not sure if the direct links below will take you to the course videos.

 NIH Stroke Scale - General Information and Course Completion Instructions - MUST VIEW TO CONTINUE
Significance of the Stroke Scale
Relevance to Medical Specialties
Tips for Scoring
Part Instruction & Training Version 2.1
Section Learning and Understanding the Scale
completed Introduction
completed 1A Level of Consciousness
completed 1B LOC - Questions
1C LOC-Commands
2 Best Gaze
3 Visual
4 Facial Palsy
completed 5 Motor Arm
6 Motor Leg
7 Limb Ataxia
8 Sensory
9 Best Language
10 Dysarthria
11 Extinction and Inattention - formally neglect
Section Demonstration Patient A
Demonstration Patient A Test
Demonstration Patient A Total Score
Section Demonstration Patient B
Demonstration Patient B Test
Demonstration Patient B Total Score
Part Group A Test
Test Group A, Patient 1 16
Test Group A, Patient 2 16
Test Group A, Patient 3 17
Test Group A, Patient 4 17
Test Group A, Patient 5 17
Test Group A, Patient 6 17
Evaluation Survey A- Must complete in order to claim certificate
Claim CME/CE Credit or a Certificate of Completion/Attendance
Part Course Resource Section
Disclosure
Resources & FAQ
Course Production Credits
Total Score 0100.0

The minimum score to successfully complete this offering is: 93%
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  1. Elizabeth, John, Jack, and LukeOctober 17, 2011 at 12:08 PM

    While looking for this scale online, I came accross the research about improved outcomes for people that are early "leg crossers" no matter what their # on the scale says. Now its clear why the neuropsychs documented my laying in bed with legs crossed while they did my eval. Always learning! Thanks for sharing.

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