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 29, 2013

Statins protective against Parkinson's: More evidence

Anything to keep prescriptions of statins going. Your doctor should be getting Neurology so ask him/her about it.
http://www.theheart.org/article/1563939.do?utm_medium=email&utm_source=20130729_heartwire&utm_campaign=newsletter
Further evidence that statin use is associated with a reduction in risk of Parkinson's disease has come from a population study conducted in Taiwan [1].
The study, published online July 24, 2013 in Neurology, was led by Dr Yen-Chieh Lee (Cathay General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan).
In a large population of statin users, researchers found a lower risk of Parkinson's in those who continued taking lipophilic statins compared with those who discontinued, having reached their cholesterol goal.
Authors of an accompanying editorial conclude: "For those who have to be on statins, it is a comforting thought that there is a potential added advantage of having a lower risk of Parkinson's disease and possibly other neurologic disorders as well" [2].
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