You'll have to question your doctor on why this works and if you might be a candidate. What is the theory behind why this might work?
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20121010/Ischemic-preconditioning-tested-in-stroke-patients.aspx
Inducing repeated brief ischemia in the arms may reduce the rate of recurrent stroke in patients with symptomatic intracranial arterial stenosis, a small clinical study shows.
Recurrent
stroke rates were just 5.0% after 90 days and 7.9% after 300 days of
treatment, compared with 23.3% and 26.7%, respectively, in the control
group, report Xunming Ji (Xuanwu Hospital, Beijing, China) and
colleagues in Neurology.
Initially, 103 patients entered the study and were randomly assigned to
active or control treatment. The device used was designed specifically
for the study. It has two tourniquets, similar to blood pressure cuffs,
which, once applied, inflate and deflate according to a preprogrammed
schedule to induce five cycles of bilateral upper limb ischemia for 5
minutes followed by 5 minutes of reperfusion.
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