Deans' stroke musings: Moving Physical Therapy Forward

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, September 6, 2012

Moving Physical Therapy Forward

You can listen to Joseph Brence, DPT talk about the need for PTs to have evidence to support their therapy. This was talked about here in 1994 by Carr and Shepherd. Why should he have to repeat this 18 years later?
http://pttalker.com/2012/09/moving-physical-therapy-forward/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PtTalker+%28PT+Talker%29
But then we might not get any therapy at all, for those like me who have large areas of dead brain, What will therapists provide as evidence? I remember my OT telling me that studies showed that survivors that didn't have this type of finger movement wouldn't recover finger movement. I still do not have finger movement but she kept trying and I will eventually prove it can be done.