Deans' stroke musings: Complementary and alternative medicine treatments among stroke patients in India

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, January 9, 2013

Complementary and alternative medicine treatments among stroke patients in India

The real title should be 'Quackery treatments for stroke used in India'
Hopefully you aren't using any of these.
http://search.naric.com/research/rehab/redesign_record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=J64629&phrase=no&rec=119941
NARIC Accession Number: J64629. What's this?
ISSN: 1074-9357.
Author(s): Pandian, Jeyaraj D.; Toor, Gagan; Arora, Rajni; Kaur, Paramdeep; Dheeraj, K. V.; Bhullar, Ranjeet S.; Sylaja, Padmawati N..
Publication Year: 2012.
Number of Pages: 11.
Abstract: Study investigated the frequency of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use and identified the factors that predict the use of CAM among stroke patients in India. The common CAM treatments available in India are ayurvedic massage, herbal medicine, marma therapy, reiki therapy, homeopathy, intravenous fluids, and opium. Three hundred fourteen stroke patients were interviewed using a structured questionnaire; mean age was 57.4 years and 230 (73.2 percent) patients were men. Outcomes were assessed using a modified Rankin Scale (mRS); good outcome is mRS less than or equal to 2. Of 314 patients, 114 (36.3 percent) had used the following CAM treatments: ayurvedic massage, 67 (59.3 percent); intravenous fluids, 22 (19.5 percent); herbal medicines, 17 (15 percent); homeopathy, 15 (13.3 percent); witchcraft, 3 (2.7 percent); acupuncture, 3 (2.7 percent); opium intake, 10 (8.8 percent); and other nonconventional treatments, 10 (8.8 percent). Patients with severe stroke, limb weakness, dysphagia, dyslipidemia, hypertension, or hemorrhagic stroke and patients with poor outcome (mRS greater than 2) often used CAM treatments.
Descriptor Terms: ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE, INTERNATIONAL REHABILITATION, STROKE.