Deans' stroke musings: Sen. Mark Kirk on how his stroke made him a better senator

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, February 4, 2013

Sen. Mark Kirk on how his stroke made him a better senator — and a better man

You'll have to read this at the link. If you are one of his constituents see if he can understand the need for hyperacute therapy research and become the Tipping Point for stroke. Tim Johnson either didn't try or failed at it. He never explains if he had an ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke.

Sen. Mark Kirk on how his stroke made him a better senator — and a better man

An MRI soon discovered that the inner lining of my carotid artery had peeled away. The dissected artery was blocking the blood flow to my brain, putting me in imminent danger of a stroke.
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I do disagree with this paragraph and wish doctors would properly inform their patients.
If the Circle of Willis is properly functioning the two vertebral arteries and the other carotid artery are enough blood flow to properly supply the brain. I have only three functioning arteries and I am in no danger of a stroke from that missing 4th artery supply of blood.