Deans' stroke musings: European research consortium plans to improve stroke rehabilitation

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.

Thursday, August 2, 2012

European research consortium plans to improve stroke rehabilitation

But they haven't asked me anything yet. Chipping away at the edges in your own silo is not going to help enough for the millions needing help every year. A comprehensive plan attacking every aspect of stroke is needed. Who is going to be the bold visionary that changes the landscape?
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=122700&CultureCode=en
Researchers at the University of Luxembourg, along with their international partners, want to develop an easy-to-use, self-motivating tool that stroke patients can use in their rehabilitation process. The 4.4 million euro project is funded by the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme.
“Millions of people live with the consequences of stroke. We plan to significantly improve the monitoring and support of patients at home to maximize their recovery from cognitive impairments and to restore cognitive functions such as memory, attention and the ability to concentrate”, says Professor Claus Vögele, who is leading the University of Luxembourg team of 7 international partners, including biologists, psychologists, neurologists, as well as industry.
Working together as part of the so-called CONTRAST project, they are developing an easy to use headset with neurofeedback electrodes, which aims to measure and increase the use of certain areas of the brain with brain-training exercises that can improve long-term cognitive performance and mental health well-being.
Prof. Vögele, whose brother suffered from a stroke, has a strong personal motivation to conduct research in helping stroke patients regain basic cognitive functions that are often lost following a stroke. “I saw a lot of missed opportunities in his rehabilitation process. With our partners in CONTRAST, we can develop new rehabilitation tools that will help close the gap between acute patient care, rehabilitation, and outpatient care”, he explains.
In Luxembourg, the CONTRAST project is conducted by Prof. Vögele, Dr. Simone Witzmann and Cristina Campillo of the “Integrative Research Unit Social and Individual Development” (INSIDE), Faculty of Language, Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education, at the University of Luxembourg. In cooperation with the National Center for Functional Re-education and Rehabilitation, Luxembourg, (Rehazenter, Kirchberg), the researchers are looking forward to working to improve the rehabilitation process in Luxembourg’s stroke population.