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.

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Can acupuncture help stroke survivors?

Considering who is sponsoring the study, this is biased from the start. First you have to somehow believe there are energy meridians.
http://www.alberniportal.ca/2013/05/can-acupuncture-help-stroke-survivors/
A study is looking at whether acupuncture could help improve gait and limb movements after a stroke.
Weakness and paralysis are one of the most significant, and disabling, after effects of stroke. There is no obvious way of reversing the problem, although time and rehabilitation measures may produce some improvement. Researchers at the New England School of Acupuncture, together with colleagues at Masssachusetts General Hospital and others, are looking at whether acupuncture can improve functioning following a stroke.
Stroke patients will be given either real or ‘sham’ acupuncture. Advanced computer technology will be used to analyse gait and limb movements and brain imaging will examine any changes in blood flow patterns. The study should shed light on the value of acupuncture in stroke – previous research has proved inconclusive.

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  1. Billy EthridgeMay 26, 2013 at 7:09 PM

    From various medical studies (evidence-based) at major universities and personal experience, acupuncture works. Of course, the knowledge and skills of practitioners varies widely. This variance is one among various reasons why scientific understanding is needed -- to "separate the wheat from the chaff".

    I recommend the award-winning documentary by Douglas Dearth, "9000 Needles". Doug's brother, Devin, had a brain stem stroke and was unable to move or talk. His family and community raised sufficient money for Devin and a few family members to go to China and a highly touted medical clinic which featured acupuncture. About 3 months later, Devin, using two crutches which strapped around his forearms, walked out of the clinic. Not at all completely healed, Devin nonetheless had made significant progress healing while in China.

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    1. oc1deanMay 26, 2013 at 9:22 PM

      The Devin Dearth film is totally anectdotal and thus at the lowest rung of scientific proof. Sorry Billy, its just a form of placebo.

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  2. Doc JecMay 26, 2013 at 9:12 PM

    Acupuncture can heal or be an instrument in healing so many illnesses. I would recommend everyone, especially the skeptics, to give it a try.

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    1. oc1deanMay 26, 2013 at 10:48 PM

      Oh my both chiropractic and acupuncture, double the woo.
      I would never recommend acupuncture, there is no scientific basis behind it.

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