Deans' stroke musings: The Use of Low level Laser Therapy and Injury Recall Technique in the Treatment of Closed head and Other Brain Injuries

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.

Sunday, January 27, 2013

The Use of Low level Laser Therapy and Injury Recall Technique in the Treatment of Closed head and Other Brain Injuries

I can't make head or tails of what the mechanism is supposed to do. Ask all the doctors you know before you attempt anything like this.
Ok, probably quackery.
Injury recall technique is a technique to erase the neurological memory of the past. Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI3MaInxMlM&feature=share

http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?hl=en&q=http://blog.drhogg.com/wp-content/uploads/LASER_IRT_BRAIN_INJURY_PAPER.doc&sa=X&scisig=AAGBfm1sG4tgbP4YlHLyeJCFIuakPbshoA&oi=scholaralrt

Introduction

Closed head injuries are a common occurrence in the United States with en estimated incidence of 200 per 100,000 people per year. (1,2) A “closed head” injury is one in which there is trauma to the brain which does not pierce the cranium. Common causes of closed head injuries include traffic accidents and falls in which the head is struck. Often the greatest injury is not from the original trauma but due to edema and intracranial bleeding putting pressure on vulnerable neural tissue in an enclosed space. Free radical damage and ischemia are likely contributor to this secondary type of brain injury. Approximately 100,000 people die as a result of closed head injuries in the United States each year(3,4). Of those who survive, another 90,000 each year suffer some level of long-standing or permanent disability (3,4). As our service men and women return, injured, from Iraq, Afganistan and elsewhere, persisting disability resulting from brain injury becomes an increasing concern.

Types of trauma in closed head injuries include “coup” injuries from direct transmission of trauma through the skull to the brain which causes injury directly beneath the point of impact. A second type of injury is the “contrecoup” in which indirect trauma to the brain occurs via rotational shear forces that cause the brain to bounce against or sweep across the interior of the cranium. In the contrecoup injury, multiple areas of brain trauma occur that are less obvious based on the point of impact. When all primary and secondary sources of brain injury in a closed head incident are considered, understanding the possible brain areas actually affected becomes complex.

Other types of brain injury considered in this paper will include additional sources of ischemic injury. Specifically I will be discussing my experience with stroke, open heart surgery and birth trauma.