Deans' stroke musings: Pregnancy and 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

Pregnancy and stroke

For the women out there, be careful.
http://www.letsgosc.org/2011/11/pregnancy-and-stroke/

The chance that a woman would have a stroke while she is pregnant is very small, but a study finds it’s changing. At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Elena Kuklina looked at hospitalizations between 1994 and 2007:

“The rate of stroke is rising in pregnant women and in women who have just given birth.’’

Kuklina says the rate went up by about 50 percent in all pregnancy-related strokes, to about 3,000 a year by 2007.

Kuklina says people can reduce their risk of stroke by not smoking; eating a low-fat, low-sodium, high-fiber diet; being physically active – and controlling weight, even before pregnancy.

The study was in the journal Stroke.