Deans' stroke musings: Dual sensory impairment (DSI) in traumatic brain injury (TBI) -- An emerging interdisciplinary challenge

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.

Friday, November 9, 2012

Dual sensory impairment (DSI) in traumatic brain injury (TBI) -- An emerging interdisciplinary challenge

In case this describes your needs.
http://www.naric.com/research/rehab/record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=J64195&phrase=no&rec=119291
Abstract: Article presents current research on dual sensory impairment (DSI), a term that describes co-existing auditory and visual sensory deficits, in traumatic brain injury (TBI). Current research investigating DSI in both the active duty and veteran populations, along with research pertinent to auditory and visual medical professionals that can be generalized to these patient groups, is presented. Important issues related to diagnosing these sensory deficits in the clinic are discussed. Due to the heterogenous nature of TBI lesions, an important challenge that the clinician faces is ruling out the influence of multiple sensory deficits and/or the influence of cognitive processes on diagnosis and rehabilitation of the patient. Treatment options for DSI involve remediation of the sensory deficits via existing sensory aids or training exercises. Finally, rehabilitation factors are considered so that clinicians can better understand the needs of the average veteran with DSI.