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.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Thinking:Fast and Slow about stroke recovery

I've been reading Thinking, Fast and Slow / Daniel Kahneman. He breaks down thinking into 2 systems, System 1; fast, intuitive, emotional; System 2; slower,deliberative,logical. As survivors we probably had to switch most of our thinking to system 2,including most of our motor control
Research by Roy Baumeister shows that the nervous system consumes more glucose than most other parts of the body, and effortful mental activity needs a lot of glucose. His implication is that this depletion could be rectified by ingesting glucose. Who is going to take up the research to see if figuring this out might help the massive fatigue most survivors have? Or do we have to figure this out ourselves? This is not medical advice: Do not self-medicate.
I told you I could make any subject into a post about stroke rehab/research
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  1. Peter G LevineJanuary 4, 2012 at 9:46 AM

    "I could make any subject into a "post" about stroke rehab", and I do! The best fodder is kids. Operant conditioning: kids are the best template. Motor learning: "Why do we allow kids to make all kinds of mistakes, including falling, while their learning to move, but survivors are told they're doing it wrong?" But, yeah, everything relates to stroke recovery because everything relates to the brain.

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