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, October 10, 2013

Disability vs Handicap vs. Impaired

I like this reply to one of these postings.

I know a few people in wheelchairs - they all hate the term disabled because it implies one is unable to function. Handicap is the word they prefer as it implies they can function but not without a challenge. The word was changed by people who are NOT in wheelchairs, do-gooders that should butt out.

You can check out an article in BMJ here;

Impairment, disability and handicap—old fashioned concepts?

 207 pages of definition from the WHO here; I'm sure your doctor has it memorized.

International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities, and Handicaps


I prefer handicap
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