Deans' stroke musings: Mouth implant to save stroke victims from brain damage

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.

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Mouth implant to save stroke victims from brain damage

I missed this when it came out three years ago -Bad boy Dean, no dessert for you tonight. Have any of your doctors followed up on this?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1330020/Mouth-implant-save-stroke-victims-brain-damage.html
A tiny device implanted in the roof of the mouth of stroke victims could boost their chances of making a full recovery.
The implant, slightly bigger than a grain of rice, works by stimulating nerves in the skull responsible for making blood vessels dilate, or widen.
As the vessels expand, they allow more blood to flow to the damaged part of the brain, bypassing the clot that caused the stroke. This stops the brain from being deprived of oxygen for so long that it is left permanently damaged.

Initial tests suggest the new treatment might be able to prevent brain damage if given up to 24 hours after a stroke has occurred. (Current treatments involve injecting clot-busting drugs into the brain, but are fully effective only if given within three hours of a stroke.)
The implant takes just 30 minutes to put in and can remain in the mouth for a few hours or several weeks.
The new device, developed by Israeli firm BrainsGate, could transform treatment of ischaemic strokes.

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