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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, January 22, 2013

Pothead? Consider cannabis as cause of stroke in younger patients

But, but doctor what about my use of it for spasticity relief and new cell growth.?
http://www.theheart.org/article/1498023.do
Since these points don't apply to me, maybe I won't get the third degree.
Us old geezers should be able to get past this inquisitorial testing.

Wolff commented that as most cannabis smokers are young, patients under 45 years of age presenting with symptoms of stroke should be asked about cannabis use and their urine tested for cannabinoids.
"It is important to establish if cannabis has been the cause, as they can reduce their risk of a subsequent stroke if they stop using the drug," she said.
The authors note that 59 case reports of cannabis-related stroke (mean age 33 years) have been described. The majority were men, with a male-to-female ratio of 4.9:1. Of the 59 cases, 49 were classed as ischemic strokes, five were transient ischemic attacks, one was a hemorrhagic stroke, and, in four patients, a diagnosis of stroke was suspected but not confirmed because there was no neuroimaging.

Another case of jumping to conclusions based on correlation, not necessarily cause.
More at link.

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