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.

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Having purpose in life 'could reduce stroke risk'

My purpose is to reduce the stroke damage worldwide by disseminating information that our medical staff should already know but don't.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9910103/Having-purpose-in-life-could-reduce-stroke-risk.html
A study of over-50s found that those who had defined goals for the future were at a much lower risk of suffering a clot on the brain than people with few objectives.
It remains unclear whether setting aims later in life makes people more likely to keep up a healthy lifestyle, or whether thinking positively about one's life somehow protects against a stroke, researchers said.
About 200 people in the UK die from a stroke every day, and the NHS spends £2.3 billion a year treating the 100,000 people who suffer from one every year.
A stroke happens when a blood clot prevents oxygen from reaching the brain, causing brain cells to break down and often robbing patients of certain abilities such as speech or the movement of their limbs.
Researchers from the University of Michigan studied 6,739 men and women, all of whom were aged over 50, and used questionnaires to assess to what extent each person had a purpose in life.
People with high scores for "directedness", who felt that their life had meaning and had clear goals for the future, were 22 per cent less likely to have a stroke than those who lacked a sense of purpose.
Writing in the Journal of Psychosomatic Research, the researchers concluded: "'Among older adults, greater purpose in life is linked with a lower risk of stroke."

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