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.

Monday, January 30, 2012

Where should stroke research go next?

A two pronged approach.
1. Prevention - The whole goal here is to save brain cells, not necessarily prevent strokes. Figure out how to stop the neuronal cascade of death due to glutamate poisoning, excitotoxicity, closed capillaries due to pericytes. This alone can probably reduce the death and disability on a massive scale. See my hyperacute posts for ideas.
2. Until #1 occurs we will need to figure out exactly how and why neuroplasticity occurs.
Until we know that there is really no reason for researchers to keep proving that neuroplasticity works, we already know that, stop reinventing the wheel.

Where are the thought leaders in this space that should have thought of this 20 years ago?
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