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, July 21, 2013

Social connections - stroke rehab

This is probably what I consider the most important to recovery, even more important than physical recovery.  Last night was the second event of the meetup group. The first was at a downtown wine bar, somewhat lopsided - 20 women, 2 men.  Single Friends of Mid-Michigan. 7 of us got together for the Taste of Lansing, a downtown block party where your admittance gets you 4 food tickets and 5 wine tickets. They hand you a wine glass as your entry, I even got carded, the security guard just joked with me about that. We listened to music and talked for a couple of hours, then retired to the same wine bar for a final drink.  When everybody left they left their wine glasses behind, so now I have 4 engraved wine glasses. The organizer and I then checked out a local bar in the Old Town section of Lansing. The Unicorn Tavern - Another great dive bar in Lansing. The place features a talented band that plays excellent selection of songs and friendly mix of crowd. I prefer these older bars, you're more likely to actually talk to others and the age range skews closer to mine.
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  1. Rebecca DuttonJuly 22, 2013 at 9:34 AM

    I agree. Physical recovery without recovering as a person is pointless.

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  2. Barb PolanJuly 22, 2013 at 9:59 AM

    I agree about the social aspect, but the only local stroke survivor group has the same numbers - all women - and all at 10-15 years older than I . And none trying to return to work. Meets monthly, and every meeting includes self-introductions that are the same each time. YAWN.

    I am far better off with online conversations (with the same survivors you converse with).

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    1. oc1deanJuly 22, 2013 at 11:56 AM

      I have pretty much given up on stroke survivor groups, whiners or nothing useful discussed, but then I expect a lot from my discussion partners.

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