Deans' stroke musings: Arkansas Department of Health Receives Blue & You Foundation Grant to Improve Stroke Care in Arkansas

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.

Monday, January 21, 2013

Arkansas Department of Health Receives Blue & You Foundation Grant to Improve Stroke Care in Arkansas

You in Arkansas need to get involved and change the focus from prevention(the lazy way out) vs. finding out how to stop the neuronal cascade of death.

Arkansas Department of Health Receives Blue & You Foundation Grant to Improve Stroke Care in Arkansas

Arkansas is ranked first among the states in the stroke death rate based on data from 2010, the most recent available nationally. Each year, it is estimated that more than 795,000 Americans suffer from a stroke, and about 25 percent of those who are 40 years of age or older die at the time of the stroke or soon after. Among the survivors, some 15 - 30 percent remains permanently disabled.

You stop the cascade of neuronal death and less dying and disability will occur. This will not be easy to accomplish as these 1000 failures already proved.
But you survived a stroke, finding a solution for this has to be easier, especially if our medical staff focus on that rather than intellectually lazy prevention.