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, April 16, 2012

Neuroplasticity and Rehabilitation

A complete book on neuroplasticity.  But I heard it takes 30 years to get from research to practice.  A simple sentence would suffice. Your brain can change depending upon the needs put upon it, so repetition for your damage can make a new area take on those functions. I'm not spending $65 on something I already know about, unless they actually have a specific number of repetitions needed for penumbra vs. dead brain damage.
http://acn.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/04/11/arclin.acs040.short
It takes an average of 17 years for an innovative finding to emerge from scientific depths into the daily practice of clinical medicine (Balas & Boren, 2000). Indeed, translating evidence-based findings into clinical practice is a long and sometimes treacherous process with many a novel finding lost in the cavernous gap that separates the laboratory from the clinic. Neuroplasticity and Rehabilitation serves as a bridge over that gap; achieving in a mere 350 pages, the integration of several years of laboratory research with animal models into real-world applications of rehabilitation strategies for humans.
The field of brain rehabilitation is based on the premise that functional abilities can be rehabilitated or restored after an injury. Nonetheless, evidence-based research to back up the promise of functional restoration has historically been lacking or, at the very least, not-well communicated; leading many health professionals to be skeptical of the field's potential. This volume on brain plasticity is a loud and clear message to those skeptics that neurorehabilitation for brain-injured individuals provides not only compensation for lost abilities, but also offers an avenue for the potential restoration of those abilities.
The aim of this book is to provide a description of the evidence and successful application of brain-based approaches to rehabilitation. The volume is presented in two parts. Part I dedicated to the foundational bench work on brain plasticity underlying approaches to neurorehabilitation. Part II extends

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