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.

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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.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Stroke leads to sensory scramble

Trying to map proprioception. See if your doctor can figure out how to use this in your recovery.
http://www.6minutes.com.au/news/latest-news/stroke-leads-to-sensory-scramble
Stroke may scramble the brain’s sensory map of the hand, Australian researchers report for the first time - an effect they warn is missed by routine examinations.
Dr Ingvars Birznieks and his team from Neuroscience Research Australia applied a non-painful stimulus to 25 locations on a stroke patient’s hand. In only one instance did the patient, who could not see the hand, correctly identify the location of the stimulus – in the middle of the palm.
The 24 other touch points were drastically scrambled. A touch on the thumb was interpreted as a touch on the index finger, a touch on the pinky was believed to be a touch on the middle finger, and a touch on the middle finger was mistaken... (more if you register)
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Stroke leads to sensory scramble
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