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, May 4, 2012

American Heart and Stroke Association Membership Benefits and Criteria

You can't make it any clearer as to what the ASA is for, a professional society for medical staff.  We as stroke survivors have no standing. Nothing about efficacy of stroke rehab protocols or any mention of helping survivors.
http://my.americanheart.org/professional/Membership/Benefits/Benefits_UCM_318664_SubHomePage.jsp
All AHA/ASA Professional Members receive basic benefits:
    • New membership benefit! Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA) New Open Access journal—online only, peer reviewed. Members save $500 in publication fees with discount code.
    • New membership benefit! The new AHA research grant application fee effective for the winter 2012 deadlines will be waived for members. You can apply at my.americanheart.org/research
    • Countless networking opportunities with like-minded professionals
    • Priority registration and housing for Scientific Sessions and the International Stroke Conference
    • Notification about AHA national and affiliate research funding opportunities and deadlines
    • Notice about upcoming AHA scientific conferences and requests for abstracts  
    • Special opportunities to volunteer to become a peer reviewer of manuscripts, research applications and abstracts for meetings
    • Opportunity to apply for and receive Council Awards
    • Unlimited access within the AHA’s Professional Online Network
    • Access to the AHA Learning Library, a Web portal to a broad spectrum of professional resources provided by the AHA and organized in themed communities corresponding to AHA councils
    • Connections quarterly newsletter with council-specific information
    • Inclusion in and access to the online AHA/ASA Professional Membership Directory
    • Complimentary You’re the Cure Advocacy e-newsletter
    • Opportunity to help develop legislative policy and participate in advocacy programs
    • AHA/ASA Professional Membership card, certificate and lapel pin  (note: certificate and pin available upon request)
    • Special briefing on legislative and regulatory issues to members who participate in AHA Lobby Day in Washington, D.C.
And the membership categories:
Membership Levels
Premium Professional Plus
Desire maximum involvement and receive highest level of benefits

$450/year
Premium ProfessionalDesire to be involved at a significant level and receive considerable benefits
 
$250/year
 
Early Career*Completed training within last four years and M.D.s or Ph.D.s in the four years after their first faculty appointment*$75/year
 
Student/Trainee*Still in training as an undergraduate, graduate or postdoctoral/clinical fellow*$75/year
 
General ProfessionalBasic membership
 
$75/year
 
 I won't be donating to them ever.

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