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.

Friday, March 29, 2013

Why I survived my stroke

This is all speculation on my part. Your doctor should know a hell of a lot more than I do.
My brain reserve was built up.
by
1. bilingualism
2. new musical instruments,
piano, My daughter taught me 3 years prior but I never got beyond one-handed playing
saxophone, 3 years prior I started this but never got good enough to remember the finger positions after stroke. Its one of my goals now.
3. sudoku, I would do this every night before going to bed, worked my way up to doing the hardest ones in each book.  Immediately post-stroke I tried this and couldn't juggle that many numbers in my mind, even the easy ones were off limits.
4. new outdoor activity, 10 years of whitewater canoeing. Providing both a cognitive challenge and exercise created neurogenesis.

My physical condition was great. Three years after the event during a physical my resting heart rate was 54 at age 53. The doctor asked what cardio exercises I was doing. 'None for the last three years'.

I received tPA within 90 minutes of onset of the stroke.
I wrote about this earlier here but this is a little more fleshed out.  Video of Denison Falls there.
http://oc1dean.blogspot.com/2010/09/3-reasons-i-survived.html

I have to build up my reserve again to prepare for dementia or Alzheimers.

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