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.

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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, April 7, 2012

Walking Speed Predicts Who Will Live Longer

A great Jack LaLanne video.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/walking-speed-predicts-longevity-elderly/story?id=12539377
For this reason, scientists consider how quickly a person walks, when correlated with age and sex, a reflection of their underlying health.
Someone like Gerjouy(92), for example, who at his age still strolls comfortably at about 3 miles per hour, can expect to enjoy another seven years of life. In contrast, a 75-year-old man who barely shuffles along at less than 1.0 mile per hour may not make it to his 80th birthday; and a 75-year-old woman who can keep pace with Gerjouy may look forward to celebrating another 18 birthdays.
"In fact, speed of movement seems to be linear, with each increase correlating with an increased prediction for years of life," Studenski said.

And when I fell off my bike and was hobbling with a four-pronged cane at about .5 mph, I probably had a life expectancy of 1 year.
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