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.

Saturday, September 8, 2012

Combination of blood thinning drugs shown to be ineffective as stroke preventer

You have to read the complete article because they refer to lacunar strokes. This is for your doctor to consider so if they don't ask about it tell them.

http://www.healthcanal.com/brain-nerves/32026-Combination-blood-thinning-drugs-shown-ineffective-stroke-preventer.html

An international team led by a neurologist at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health has shown that a combination of aspirin and clopidogrel, both common blood thinners, does not prevent recurrence of a common type of stroke, and may even pose serious risks.
Combining aspirin and clopidogrel (known commercially as Plavix) was thought to hold promise in preventing recurring lacunar strokes – the death of brain cells caused by a narrowing of small blood vessels – by reducing the formation of clots in arteries supplying the brain.
Dr. Oscar Benavente, a UBC professor of neurology and research director of the Stroke and Cerebrovascular Health Program at Vancouver Coastal Health, sought to determine if a combination of clopidogrel and aspirin –another anti-clotting agent that is used to prevent strokes — would lower the recurrence of lacunar strokes more than aspirin alone. The study involved 3,020 patients from 82 sites in North America, Latin America, and Spain who were followed for several years.