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.

Saturday, March 17, 2012

A Primer on the Language of Observational Studies

I know I point to a lot of observational studies. This blogger explains why most of them are wrong.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/GarySchwitzer/31553
As a friend of mine wrote, the rooster crowing in the morning does not make the sun come up, even though a statistical association between the two coinciding is high.
But this is a message about messages -- inaccurate news stories and other messages about observational studies that use causal language where it is inappropriate.
One recent week we saw stories about citrus fruits protecting women from stroke. The very next week it was stories about “sleeping pills could kill 500,000.” And then we also had stories about “omega-3 fatty acids protecting the aging brain“… and about “Vitamin A may slash melanoma risk.” Sometimes it’s stories about lower risk (or protection), sometimes it’s stories about higher risk.
One thing is in common: almost all of the stories are simply wrong, using inaccurate language to describe the kinds of studies in question.
More at the link.
This comic has a good take on correlation vs. causation.
 http://xkcd.com/552/
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