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.

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

'It showed what I always knew - he was really in there': Stroke sufferer, 23, woken up by SLEEPING PILL

Wonder what else it would work on.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079018/Sam-Goddard-Stroke-sufferer-23-woken-SLEEPING-PILL.html

WHY DOES AMBIEN HELP?

Ambien, also called Stilnox, is a prescription medicine used to treat insomnia by initiating sleep.

It contains Zolpidem, which studies have found increases blood flow in the brain, particularly in areas involved in language comprehension - allowing improved function.

Cure? When Sam began taking Ambien he was able to speak again. He now takes it four times a day

Studies into the connection between stroke rehabilitation and Ambien are ongoing.

John White at Moss Rehabilitation Center in Philadelphia is leading a study into the connection.

So far he has found that fewer than 10 per cent of stroke victims respond to the drug - and that Sam's case is extremely rare.

'We’re not able to yet advise families on how to use this drug clinically because the research is in the very early stages,' he told MSNBC.

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