Deans' stroke musings: Repairing the Injured Brain Why Proper Rehabilitation Is Essential to Recovering Function

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.

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Repairing the Injured Brain Why Proper Rehabilitation Is Essential to Recovering Function

A great article explaining what you need to know about your challenges to recovery. Your doctor should have given you this information.
From the Dana Foundation.
http://dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=39258
A couple of lines from it. Read it all.
Since most people with brain injury live a nearly normal life span (the overall average is seven years decreased life expectancy).
Amphetamine administration in concert with therapy may enhance and accelerate the rate and extent of recovery of motor function.
Therapies that are conducted one or two times a week are unlikely to be of sufficient dose to facilitate neurological re-modeling. It has been shown that in order for neurons to learn a specific motor function, that motor function must be repeated hundreds of times.
Treatment of people with acquired brain injury is highly specialized and poorly understood by practitioners in the general medical and allied health fields.