Deans' stroke musings: The influence of stroke laterality on coping with stroke outcome

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.

Saturday, November 5, 2011

The influence of stroke laterality on coping with stroke outcome

It was not the side of the lesion that makes a difference on coping strategies, It simply is that medical staff give you NO opinion of how you might recover.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15227588

Abstract

Objective of this study was to asses the influence of coping activities on stroke disability- and handicap-outcomes. Of special interest was to investigate if and how the variable "side of lesion" influenced the relationship between coping activities and outcomes. 105 stroke patients (50 women, 55 men, mean age 71.1 years) were investigated. The coping activities of the stroke patients were investigated with the "Freiburg Questionnaire of Coping with Illness" (PQCI). The Disability Outcomes were investigated with the "Depression Status Inventory" (DSI) and the "Self Concept Scale for General Feelings of Self Worth". The Handicap-Outcomes were investigated with the "Perceived Quality of Life Scale" (PQoL) and the "Oxford Handicap Scale" (OHS). Unaffected by the side of lesion, depressive coping showed negative influences on the investigated outcomes. The strategy "trivialization and wishful thinking" intensified significantly the prevailing mood of depression of patients who suffered a right hemisphere stroke. The same negative influence of this strategy was detected on the psycho-social condition of these patients. The influence of the strategies "active and problem-focused coping", "distractive and self-reconstructive coping" and "religious and meaning-searching coping" remained unaffected by the stroke side. These strategies showed no influence on the investigated outcomes. Depressive coping should be avoided.

Don't we have any stroke researchers that can think logically?