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, July 19, 2013

Dangerous Stroke Prevention Method Could be Safe for Some People

Why not just force the artery closed? Then you don't have to worry about dissections anymore. I'm obviously not medically trained so that was a stupid comment. My right carotid is closed and thats great because I no longer worry about it throwing a clot. You just have to verify with your doctor that you have a functioning Circle of Willis.
Stenting - No thanks.

Dangerous Stroke Prevention Method Could be Safe for Some People


Suffering from a stroke can often lead to irreversible, debilitating consequences, which is why preventing strokes from occurring is extremely important. Numerous research studies have identified several risk factors that contribute to stroke. By limiting these risk factors or maintaining them, people can protect themselves to a greater extent. Now, according to a new study, a different type of stroke prevention method that is often considered risky and dangerous could actually be safe for some people.


In this new study, which is a part of the International Carotid Stenting Study (ICSS), the researchers from the University College London evaluated the effects of a procedure called stenting and whether or not it is as safe as carotid artery surgery when used to reduce one's stroke risk. The researchers found that for some patients, stenting in the neck's carotid artery could effectively reduce stroke risk. Stenting reduces stroke risk because it expands the artery and prevents the build up of fatty deposits. Build ups can lead to blockages and prevent blood flow from reaching the brain. Although stenting is less invasive than carotid artery surgery, which is a procedure done to remove the fatty deposits, stenting is believed to have greater risks.
The team found that by studying patients' brain scans, doctors could identify the risk factors and assess whether or not stenting would be a safe and effective procedure. The researchers explained that brain scans could reveal white matter lesions, which could measure one's risk of a stroke. Based on statistics, researchers know that one in every 10 patients who had more white matter lesions tend to have a three times increased risk of suffering from a stroke after stenting. Therefore, if a patient has the above average amount of white matter lesions, stenting might not be a smart treatment option. The reverse was also true.
"The results of this trial demonstrate convincingly for the first time that the severity of white matter damage shown on CT or MRI brain scans should be taken into account when patients are offered treatment for carotid artery narrowing," a professor of stroke medicine at the UCL Institute of Neurology and the chief investigator of ICSS, Martin Brown said according to Medical Xpress.  
The findings were published in Lancet Neurology. The Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Stroke Association funded the research.

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