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, December 25, 2011

Fast recovery vs. slow rehab

What I wish doctors and researchers would acknowledge is that tPA doesn't work very well. I saw a 32% efficacy in the 3 hour period and 16% efficacy in the 3-4.5 hour period. And besides it doesn't stop the cascade of neuronal death from glutamate poisoning, excitotoxicity and the closed capillaries due to pericytes. My doctor told me I didn't get the fast recovery, I would have to hold out for the slow rehab recovery, and I got it within 90 minutes. In general there is little that can't be massively improved in stroke research and rehabilitation. But first you have to admit that there are problems and try to solve them rather than sticking your head in the sand and saying the solution is to blame the public for not eating and exercising correctly, thus the public is not preventing their own stroke. Someday I'll rant about this in Deans' Stroke Manifesto.
I had to be informed several times during bowling on Friday that I needed to be quiet and bowl. (143,158,105)
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  1. LindaDecember 26, 2011 at 11:03 AM

    As vital as prevention is, shifting the blame for life style onto the survivor is not the answer.

    Continuing research needs to be diversified but continuing cooperation and communication between researcher teams is a vital component in improving outcomes for survivors.

    Love your friends telling you-- more bowling less talking. It sounds like you had fun.

    Best in the New Year Dean!

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