Deans' stroke musings: The clinician's voice of brain and heart: A biopsycho-ecological framework for merging the biomedical and holistic

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, November 15, 2011

The clinician's voice of brain and heart: A biopsycho-ecological framework for merging the biomedical and holistic

The abstract does not tell us anything but your neurologist should have the full paper.
biopsycho-ecological framework
HUH!!!http://www.naric.com/research/rehab/record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=J61573&phrase=no&rec=116302
Author(s): Stineman, Margaret G.
Publication Year: 2011.
Number of Pages: 5.
Abstract: Article describes the biopsycho-ecological framework as a necessary expansion of the biomedical and holistic models of illness to guide disability research, to frame rehabilitation care, and to enrich disability studies. The biopsycho-ecological model merges fundamental aspects of qualitative and inductive reasoning and recognizes biological, mental, social, and environmental elements as being equal determinants of illness and disability. Two research projects are presented to illustrate the importance of and synergies between measurable and subjective aspects of science. The first example, as a comparative effectiveness study, has the potential to justify alternative patterns of rehabilitation services through quantifiable evidence. The second example, as a clinical tool for empowerment, has the potential to make those services more personally meaningful through the analysis of patients’ preferences and life worlds. The combination of qualitative with quantitative scientific methods can yield a deeper understanding of disability and rehabilitation practices than either type of approach alone.
Descriptor Terms: CHRONIC ILLNESS, HOLISM, MEDICAL TREATMENT, MODELING, PHILOSOPHY, REHABILITATION, STROKE.