Deans' stroke musings: Treating TBI: Examining Optimal Treatment for those with Traumatic Brain Injuries

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 22, 2012

Treating TBI: Examining Optimal Treatment for those with Traumatic Brain Injuries

This sounds like a great dissertation that your doctor should be reading, and you should be influencing your doctoral students to write a similar paper on stroke. Except you should be interviewing the real professionals, the stroke survivors.
http://gradworks.umi.com/15/10/1510906.html

Abstract:

The question is often asked: What is the most effective treatment to recover from a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)? The answer to this question is sought in this position paper by interviewing professionals working in the field of TBI throughout the country and by dissecting the literature available on the efficacy of various treatments. The system currently in place throughout the VA network, Home and Community-Based Support (HCBS) TBI Medicaid Waivers facilitated in New York and 15 other states, as well as cognitive rehabilitation programs are examined to answer this question. While the very nature of TBI made it quite complicated to discern which approach would be most effective regardless of the type of brain injury sustained, the importance of contextual supports that are meaningful for the TBI survivor were determined to be the most effective.