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.

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Arousal and Physiological Toughness: Implications for Mental and Physical Health

Is your doctor eliciting the appropriate psychological responses from you to assure your readiness to accept the challenge to get back to 100% recovery?
Its only 18 pages long and from 1989, so if your doctor doesn't know about this they are spectacularly incompetent. My opinion only, you can come up with your own opinion of your doctor.
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1215&context=psychfacpub
From W. B. Cannon’s identification of adrenaline with “
fight or flight” to modern views of stress, negative views of peripheral physiological arousal predominate. Sympathetic nervous system (SNS) arousal is associated with anxiety, neuroticism, the Type A personal-
ity, cardiovascular disease, and immune system suppression; illness susceptibility is associated with life events requiring adjustments.
“Stress control” has become almost synonymous with arousal reduction. A contrary positive view of peripheral arousal follows from
studies of subjects exposed to intermittent stressors. Such exposure leads to low SNS arousal base rates, but to strong and responsive
challenge- or stress-induced SNS-adrenal-medullary arousal, with resistance to brain catecholamine depletion and with suppression of
pituitary adrenal-cortical responses. That pattern of arousal defines physiological toughness and, in interaction with psychological coping, corresponds with positive performance in even complex tasks, with emotional stability, and with immune system enhancement.
The toughness concept suggests an opposition between effective short- and long-term coping, with implications for effective therapies andstress-inoculating life-styles.
Confrontations with stressors and challenges evoke central
and peripheral physiological arousal. Characterizations of that
peripheral arousal traditionally have been negative, but some mo-
dem views are more positive. After providing some definitions, I
discuss the apparent contradictions between literatures whose ba-
sis is an assumption of the harmfulness of peripheral physiological arousal and those whose basis is not.

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