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, March 16, 2012

Do doctors exhibit plasticity?

This is the title of one of the chapters in The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution will create better health care by Eric Topol.
A couple of quotes;
Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet.
Medical education is fundamentally conservative, indoctrinating new generations into the failed ways of the old. For too long we have hugged the shore of safe and acceptable tradition.

Jay Parkinson, Fast company
We're using 3,000 year old tools to deliver health care in the richest country on the planet.
Dr. Topol states; Of all the professions represented on the planet, perhaps none is more resistant to change than physicians. If there were ever a group defined by lacking plasticity, it would first apply to doctors.

My doctor fell into this non-plastic group, no knowledge of plasticity, Saebo or any idea how to communicate. In the 1960s, Paul Bach-y-Rita
proved neuroplasticity.
Some fascinating ideas in the book on continuous monitoring - for us that could be blood pressure, warfarin/INR levels. Read it and bring those ideas to your researchers.

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