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, September 2, 2013

IS 27. Brain stimulation in stroke therapy

You're going to have to ask your doctor for how this might be useful in your rehabilitation. If you don't ask, your doctor will never followup on this possibility.
http://www.clinph-journal.com/article/S1388-2457%2813%2900348-9/abstract
Non-invasive brain stimulation has shown its potential to modulate brain plasticity and enhance the effects of training in humans (Zimerman et al., Ann Neurol; 2012). Endeavour has been made to utilize brain stimulation in neurological diseases to enhance adaptive processes and prevent potential maladaptive ones. First studies presented evidence that non-invasive brain stimulation might not only transiently improve functions of the paretic hand, but can also modulate processes of learning (Zimerman et al., Stroke; 2012), a basis to achieve longer lasting effects. Based on this enhancement of functional recovery of both, sensorimotor and higher cognitive impairment (such as aphasia and neglect), by brain stimulation has been addressed in stroke. In the present talk, an update of the field of non-invasive brain stimulation to improve motor and higher cognitive functions in patients suffering from stroke will be presented. The recent pathophysiological grounds for therapeutic approaches based on brain stimulation will be provided in the framework of the actual controversial discussion of the field. At the end briefly the potential developments and future directions of this research topic will be discussed.
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