Deans' stroke musings: Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation: An Analysis of Functional Outcome

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.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation: An Analysis of Functional Outcome

Any research into TBI can only help stroke survivors. Your doctors group should be able to use this for reasons to get insurance to pay for therapy.
http://digitalcommons.bard.edu/sr-theses/632/

Abstract

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) affects approximately 1.7 million Americans every year. TBI has a very poor survival rate. This thesis is an analysis of rehabilitation techniques for TBI to try to distinguish why mortality and functional outcome are not ideal despite the wide variety of treatment services available. Based on a literature review, this thesis examines rehabilitation options currently offered in the United States including developing techniques. There are rehabilitation options available for each person with their distinctive injury. Interviews were also conducted with specialists in TBI treatment to identify advantages and disadvantages of these rehabilitation services, and to evaluate the influence of insurance coverage on treatment and outcome. Questionnaires were sent to representatives of 150 insurance companies about their criteria for approving treatment. A significant disagreement was found. Although the representatives of insurance companies reported support for interventions, specialists consistently reported insurance related interferences in support and treatments. This research indicates that insurance companies are limiting patients of their full potential by ending their rehabilitation before they have reach their full potential in their recovery.