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 29, 2012

Who will help you recover from your stroke?

You. You alone have to do it.  
This is only my 6th related post on this subject;
1. http://oc1dean.blogspot.com/2012/09/my-theory-on-motor-recovery-stroke-rehab.html
2. http://oc1dean.blogspot.com/2012/09/what-is-your-stroke-protocol.html
3. http://oc1dean.blogspot.com/2012/09/are-you-on-your-own-for-stroke-recovery.html
4. http://oc1dean.blogspot.com/2012/08/when-your-recovery-fails-what-is-your.html 
5. http://oc1dean.blogspot.com/2011/11/why-good-doctors-give-useless-answers.html
You will need to rely on yourself, your therapists can give you exercises to do but you will need to do them. Dr. Steven Wolfs contention, 'Stroke patients need to rely more on their own problem solving to regain mobility', You can read all the survivor books you want and the common factor is persistence, not giving up.  There are NO shortcuts, NO drugs, NO stem cells in the current environment to help you. That's why I am ranting so much on the hyperacute possibilities. If we can prevent lots of neurons from dying the future survivors will not have such difficult times trying to recover. And that will only happen if we can convince the whole stroke medical world that they are failing and need to look for solutions.
Until that wonderful world comes you will have to follow this and make yourself be in the 10% as listed below.
This book, The survivors club : the secrets and science that could save your life / Ben Sherwood, was interesting in that it broke down survivors of disasters into 3 groups. 10% would actively become leaders, 80% would follow the leaders, 10% would do nothing. I try to apply this to my stroke survivorship and am working on being in the top 10%. Maybe this is why only 10% of survivors fully recover.
If you are a follower you may not recover to the  best of your ability.
You have to become the 10%. Its lonely up there.

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