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, May 14, 2013

Tissue Injury Has Lead in New Stroke Definition

This is long past due. This is actually a great occurence.
1. Your insurance company will not pay for therapy until it is objectively proven you had a stroke.
2. This will lead to multiple CT/MRI scans in the first week since the very first scan may not show up.
3. This leads to objective proof of how the neuronal cascade of death resolves over the first week.
4. Proving to the stroke medical world that the number one focus needs to be stopping the neuronal cascade of death.
5. This objective scan of dead and dying areas will force neurologists/PMR doctors to use them in telling the therapists what protocols to use.
6. Neurologists/PMR doctors will be required to actually create and understand therapy protocols for recovery.
7. No more lying about recovery prospects.
8. Therapists will finally be able to do clinical research since they now will have a repeatable starting point.
9. You will be able to have a 3d mappable damage area to deficits.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/Strokes/39125?
If neuroimaging shows brain tissue injury, the insult should be called a stroke, even if no symptoms exist, according to an expert consensus document from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA).
"A tissue-based definition of ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack enhances diagnostic criteria and relies on utilization of various imaging techniques in the acute phase of the stroke," according to writing committee co-chair Scott E. Kasner, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and colleagues.
The experts correlated the updated stroke definition with a similar update to the definition of myocardial infarction, in which the term "acute coronary syndrome" is used before the determination of infarction has been made.
"Nevertheless, these [cardiac] patients receive urgent evaluations and treatments intended to avert or minimize permanent myocardial tissue damage," they wrote in the statement published online in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association

More at link.

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