Deans' stroke musings: The Influence of Age, Lesion Side and Location on Rehabilitation Outcome After Stroke

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.

Friday, December 2, 2011

The Influence of Age, Lesion Side and Location on Rehabilitation Outcome After Stroke

Another one of these research studies that really have no clue of what they are doing. They haven't figured out that the best prediction of recovery would be to look at dead brain area vs. penumbra or bleed area. But then I as a patient have absolutely no standing to critique these idiots. And really their professor is the one to blame for this. My opinion
http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jpts/23/5/23_817/_article

Abstract. [Purpose] This study examined whether age, lesion side or location are strong predictive factors of the functional recovery of stroke patients. [Subjects and Methods] Fifty-six stroke inpatients were recruited within 3 months after onset. All participants enrolled were treated with physical and occupational therapy consisting of two 30 minute sessions per day. [Results] After physical and occupational therapy for 2 months, the stroke participants showed functional improvement on the Functional Independence Measure (FIM), Berge Balance scale (BBS) and Functional Ambulatory Categories (FAC) scores without any relation to age, lesion side or location. On the Berg balance scale, cortical lesion patients showed greater improvement in those older than 65 years (p<0.05). [Conclusion] Physical and occupational therapy is effective for the functional recovery of stroke patients without any relation to age, lesion side or location.

So what is your hypothesis on what would be a predictive factor?