Deans' stroke musings: 10% recovery for stroke

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, August 5, 2013

10% recovery for stroke

A one slide presentation you can give to any medical stroke group.
10% is the only thing on the slide, you can create your own examples and make it into an hour-long presentation. They will remember it as the most powerful presentation they have ever seen/heard. Hopefully it will spur them to action. Leave them with, 'What medical procedure would you undertake with only a 10% chance of success?
First, according to Steve Jobs, you have to explain the problem.
Only 10% of stroke survivors fully recover. From here.

5 Powerful Ways to Open a Presentation

Is a 10% rate acceptable in any endeavor?
Use professional baseball hitting average,
Shaquille O'Neal free throw percentage,
Quarterback passing percentage,
Or any other percent that can show how stupid 10% is, you will need to beat them over the head with it.
Would you have a surgery that only had a 10% chance of succeeding?
Do not allow any excuses to be presented, like 'All strokes are different, all stroke recoveries are different'
You then ask for their solutions to bring that to 100%.
F.A.S.T. is not allowed, prevention is not allowed.
You then start at the beginning.
Diagnosis - objective - 17 possibilities; Which one are they researching/using?
How about these 11 risk reduction ideas,
Never mind hypothermia - these 16 possibilities. Reduces the damage occurring. It doesn't seem to work.
Reduce the neuronal cascade of death - maybe these 177 possibilities. If your doctor isn't using any of these, they are a major part of the problem - Fire them.

5 Powerful Ways to Close a Presentation

I know you don't feel this is your responsibility but everyone in the stroke world is sitting on their asses doing very little that is useful. This is not

Stroke - Somebody Else's Problem Its your problem because you are the only one who cares.

There is no coordinated strategy or plan on how to address the coming tsunami of stroke. And I want 200% better service that I received last time. That is actually meaningless since I received no service at all from my doctor and 200% time zero is still zero.