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 26, 2013

Effective Natural Treatment May Help Brain Damage Caused by Stroke

And how long will something as simple as this take to  get rolled out to all stroke hospitals and rehab centers?  50 years?
http://atlantablackstar.com/2013/10/25/effective-natural-treatment-may-help-stroke-caused-brain-damage/
Research findings just announced at the Canadian Stroke Congress provide hopeful news for stroke victims. A treatment has been documented that can improve memory, language, thinking and judgment problems by almost 50 percent — all within about six months after a person suffers a stroke. The therapy isn’t a new big drug or surgical treatment. Instead, it is simply consistent exercise that triggers healing in the brain.
Forty-one patients, 70 percent of  them with mild to moderate walking problems requiring a cane or walker, took part in a five-day-a-week aerobic and strength/resistance training program that was adapted to their physical limitations.
The workouts included walking, lifting weights and doing squats and were designed to imitate activities most healthy people would do in daily life. The results? At the conclusion of the program, the researchers found “significant improvements” in overall brain function in the participants. Attention, concentration, planning and organizing improved the most. Muscle strength and walking ability improved dramatically, too.
Not only does exercise dramatically improve cognitive abilities following a stroke, but it could also save the lives of many stroke victims. In a media statement, lead researcher Susan Marzolini of the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute pointed out that people who have cognitive deficits after strokes have a threefold risk of dying. They are also far more likely to be institutionalized.
“If we can improve cognition through exercise, which also has many physical benefits, then this should become a standard of care for people following stroke,” Marzolini said. “These results provide compelling evidence that by improving cardiovascular fitness through aerobic exercise and increasing muscle mass with resistance training, people with stroke can improve brain health.”
Exercising to improve physical and mental status after a stroke may not sound like a new idea, but it is actually an approach to rehabilitation that is too often ignored. Marzolini is urging the medical community to give people with stroke-related impairments access to exercise programs. “Modified exercise programs are desperately needed — they can be adapted for people following stroke, and we think they can provide huge health benefits,” she emphasized.
In addition, people who have never had a stroke can up their odds of staying stroke-free by exercising. “Healthy living is important for reducing your risk for stroke, recovering from stroke and preventing another,” Ian Joiner, director of stroke for the Heart and Stroke Foundation, noted in a press statement about the new study. “All of us should manage our risk factors for stroke and, when needed, have access to information and counseling about strategies to modify our lifestyle choices.”
Read more: Natural News

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