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.

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Confirmation bias

Is a tendency for people to favor information that confirms their preconceptions or hypotheses.
My bias is that the whole stroke world knows nothing, I seek out and find multiple research articles each day  that prove that.
My assumption is that the stroke world believes in 'All strokes are different, all stroke recoveries are different'. They are constantly reinforced in this belief by looking at their patients and not keeping detailed records to be able to see commonalities. 
To combat this from the Science Based Medicine blog;

Facts and rational arguments have no effect on a true believer. People hear only what they want to hear. Most people refuse to listen to anything that contradicts their beliefs. Their confirmation bias accepts only confirming evidence to protect their ego from having to admit they were wrong. And there’s a real danger in arguing with them. They will come up with rationalizations that allow them to reject everything you say, and that only serves to reinforce their beliefs. They come out of an argument believing even more strongly than when they went in.
You could tell them that you are willing to change your mind, and explain what it would take to make you change your mind. (Essentially the standards for scientific proof: positive scientific studies that are well-designed and replicated, leading to a scientific consensus of experts based on a critical evaluation of all the published evidence).

1 comment:

  1. I'm a former physical therapist the basis of whose education was on evidence-based practice. People aren't researching the right things, I think that's part of the problem. I was WRONG in that I thought I knew anything about how to recover someone. WRONG, WRONG, WRONG

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