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.

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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.

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Fish oil ‘may help stroke patients’


This is one of this items I will go directly to the head doctor to get authorized if my doctor doesn't have enough brains to keep up with current research.


http://www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/fish-oil-may-help-stroke-patients-1.1481741#.UTeSbXeXvgA

Stroke patients could be given an injection of fish oils to dramatically reduce the brain damage they suffer.
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s patients may also benefit, after “remarkable” experiments found omega-3 oils cut the number of brain cells killed by more than a half.
It could lead to thousands of stroke sufferers retaining the ability to eat, dress or walk unaided, hugely improving life for them and for their carers.
Currently hospitals have just one drug that eases brain damage. But it has to be given within three or four hours of a stroke.
It is hoped that the fish oil-based drug could be given much later and so help many more people.
The existing stroke drug works by breaking up clots that block blood flow to the brain but it does not prevent blood-starved cells from dying.
However, the fish oils, abundant in salmon and mackerel, help damaged cells stay alive, using multiple techniques to try such as switching on protective genes.
Experiments on mice showed that much of the “saved” brain tissue was still healthy eight weeks after receiving the jab, the journal PLoS ONE reports.
The researchers, from Columbia University in New York, and Louisiana State University in New Orleans, hope to test the drug on people “very soon”. The drug would be given through an injection in the arm. - Daily Mail

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