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, June 5, 2013

Statin Use Tied to Strains and Sprains

And why is your doctor prescribing you statins?
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/Dyslipidemia/39590?
Muscle pain has been associated with statin use, but new evidence suggests a link with skeletal adverse events as well, a propensity-matched study found.
The chances for any musculoskeletal disease diagnosis in those taking statins was significantly higher when compared with nonusers (odds ratio 1.19), reported Ishak Mansi, MD, of the VA North Texas Health Care System in Dallas, and colleagues online in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Also, statin users had a higher chance of being diagnosed with musculoskeletal adverse events in two out of three musculoskeletal subgroups based on ICD-9-CM codes:
  • Dislocation/strain/sprain: OR 1.13 (95% CI 1.05-1.21)
  • Musculoskeletal pain: OR 1.09 (95% CI 1.02-1.18)
Researchers found no significant association with statin use and osteoarthritis/arthropathy in the primary analysis, they reported.
However, in secondary analyses, the association of statins with joint disease or osteoarthritis was statistically significant.

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