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, February 27, 2013

New Journal: Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health and Behavior

Your doctor is going to have to subscribe to this journal. With a substantial percentage of stroke patients having fatigue, maybe someone will determine why it occurs after stroke. A Great stroke association would solve this.
You do expect your doctor to solve your fatigue? Don't you?
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=128849&CultureCode=en
With peer-reviewed articles on fatigue having increased 90% over the past decade ­– and nearly 1,000 papers on the topic published in 2011 alone ­– the time is right for Routledge’s new journal, Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behavior.
Sponsored by the International Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (IACFS/ME) and supported by a distinguished multidisciplinary editorial board of international scientists and clinicians, Fatigue is the first biomedical and behavioral journal focused on fatigue. Editor Fred Friedberg says, ‘We believe that high-quality contributions in the area of fatigue are more likely to be submitted to a journal that clearly recognizes the importance of fatigue as a field of scientific study as well as an important clinical concern.’
The aim of the new journal is to address the symptom of fatigue in medical illnesses, behavioral disorders and specific environmental conditions. These three broad domains are intended to advance interdisciplinary research on causation, pathophysiology, assessment and treatment.
Topics covered by the journal include: fatigue in diseases such as cancer, autoimmune diseases, multiple sclerosis (MS), pain conditions, mood disorders and circulatory diseases. Friedberg and his editorial board will also consider papers on chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME), fibromyalgia, fatigue in sleep, aging, exercise, sport and occupations. As Friedberg notes, ‘More generally Fatigue will publish on the biology, physiology and psychosocial aspects of fatigue as well as assessment and treatment.’
Fatigue will also target both science and practice. Fatigue science focuses on the study of acute and chronic fatigue states in healthy and ill populations. Fatigue practice refers to clinicians, largely physicians, psychologists, physical and occupational therapists and nurses who diagnose, evaluate, treat and provide clinical care for patients with a wide range of fatiguing illnesses and conditions.
The inaugural issue of Fatigue has just been published, and has already attracted attention on Internet fora. In addition to overviews of the subject and the state of current research, the issue includes papers on topics as far-ranging as energy-conservation interventions for patients with CFS/ME, fatigue and circadian-activity rhythms in breast-cancer patients, fatigue and related issues in women with (and without) fibromyalgia, fatigue management in the workplace and fatigue in US railroad workers in safety-sensitive positions.
Fatigue will be published quarterly, in online and hard-copy versions. Significantly, there are no submission fees for authors, who are encouraged to submit original research papers, literature reviews, data-based theoretical papers, short reports, qualitative studies, innovative case studies, expert interactive commentary and letters to the editor.
The next issue of this ground-breaking and timely journal from Routledge and the IACFS/ME will be published in June 2013.

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