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 7, 2011

Photobiomodulation May Encourage Stroke Rehabilitation

I don't trust this one yet, not enough information.
http://www.rehabpub.com/news/2011-12-06_01.asp
An experimental therapy that utilizes laser and light-emitting diode (LED) light may have implications for stroke treatment. The experimental therapy was recently conducted at the ATA Revitalization Institute, based in Easton, Pa.

Ab Boonswang, MD, co-founder of ATA and cardio-thoracic surgeon at Easton Hospital, reports that he is enthusiastic about the potential for low-light therapy, also known as photobiomodulation, on stroke patients. Boonswang spotlights the therapy’s benefits based on several stroke patients of his that have undergone treatment and regained speech as well as physical function.(But was this spontaneous recovery that would have occurred anyway?)

The therapy is “virtually unknown,” according to Paul A. Lapchak, PhD, director of translational research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Calif. Lapchak and other researchers say that the process may involve the absorption of light into the mitochondria, stimulating cells to regenerate. The theory for stroke patients, researchers explain, is that the new cells stimulated by light can heal areas of the brain damaged by the stroke.

Margaret Naeser, PhD, VA Boston Healthcare System, Mass, reports that she has studied and used laser and LED light on acupuncture points. Naeser adds that while everyone is optimistic about the treatment, lasers are not a substitute for other forms of therapy for stroke victims.

“Patients would make more progress if they had alongside those therapies . . .acupuncture or laser therapy,” Naeser says.

Boonswang adds that although there is not yet a full understanding of how light therapy works, research and progress should not be sidelined simply because, “We don’t know everything. No physician . . .knows every minute detail of every little thing we do,” Boonswang says.

Patients at ATA currently pay out of pocket for the treatment, as it is also considered experimental by insurers. Initial visits are $160; subsequent visits can run up to $80, $90, or $110 depending upon frequency of treatment.

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