Deans' stroke musings: Practical clinical treatment strategies for evaluation and treatment of visual field loss and visual inattention.

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, October 6, 2012

Practical clinical treatment strategies for evaluation and treatment of visual field loss and visual inattention.

For some of you this might be useful so ask your doctor why in the past 2 years this hasn't been brought to your attention.
http://www.naric.com/research/rehab/record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=J64152&phrase=no&rec=119226
Author(s): Berryman, Amy; Rasavage, Karen; Politzer, Thomas.
Publication Year: 2010.
Number of Pages: 8.
Abstract: Article describes remedial and compensatory interventions for visual field loss and visual inattention. Interventions are discussed in the context of an interdisciplinary neurorehabilitation team that consults with a neurooptometrist or other visual doctor with experience in TBI and stroke rehabilitation. This article is intended to promote improved interdisciplinary collaboration in the treatment of visual impairments, and to give practical, easy to implement options for clinicians to use in daily practice.