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.

Monday, July 22, 2013

Singing a healthier life

Proof that your doctor should be sending you to an outdoor concert so you can sing along.
http://www.maitlandmercury.com.au/story/1654537/singing-a-healthier-life/?cs=171
Singing in a choir can help those recovering from stroke and brain injury, a Hunter researcher has discovered.
According to a Swedish research project – involving Hunter Medical Research Institute director Michael Nilsson – the cardiovascular impacts of choir singing may have implications for stroke and brain injury recovery.
The study titled “Music determines heart rate variability of singers” has revealed that when people sing in a choir their pulses become synchronised.
The researchers believe that singing demands a slower than normal respiration, which is coupled with heart rate variability known as Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia. RSA is seen to be more marked during slow-paced breathing and at lower respiration rates.
“Previous research has found that musicians performing together have synchronised brain waves and now we’re seeing it with the heart rate,” Professor Nilsson, a translational specialist in neuroscience, said.
“The object of this study is to find new forms where music may be used for medical purposes, primarily within rehabilitation and preventative care.”
An example is the Hunter Medical Research Institute’s Brainwaves Choir.
“The choir has shown that participating in music and being in a happy environment has important benefits for mental health and may help the language centre recover as well.”
The next step for investigators will see whether the biological synchronisation of choral singers can create a shared mental perspective that strengthens the ability to  collaborate.

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