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, October 28, 2013

Health Dept reaches out to private sector, NGOs to help stroke patients

You know if these people would just use a few of their brain cells they might come up with the correct answer, and its not what they suggest.  You really don't need more OTs and PTs, you need less dead and dying neurons. Solve the neuronal cascade of death and lots of the disability and deaths in the first month go away.
http://www.theborneopost.com/2013/10/28/health-dept-reaches-out-to-private-sector-ngos-to-help-stroke-patients/
The state Health Department is ever ready to work with the private sector and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to create more comprehensive community rehabilitation centres and programmes for stroke patients.
Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) neurologist Dr Sim Siew Hung said providing rehabilitation-physiotherapy and occupational therapy (PTOT) for outpatients is one of the most challenging issues due to the increasing cases of stroke patients amid the lifestyle and modernisation faced by the society today.
“Most district hospitals such as those in Lundu, Serian, Bintulu, Miri and Limbang have their own PTOT unit, but the Health Department is looking to improve PTOT teams at all district hospitals in the state.
“Improving manpower and resources are among the issues that SGH is also working on,” Dr Sim told a press conference after the opening of the state-level World Stroke Day at the Batu Kawah Health Clinic here yesterday by Assistant Minister of Public Health Datuk Dr Jerip Susil.
Also present was state Health director Datu Dr Zulkifli Jantan.
Dr Zulkifli agreed with Dr Sim, who is the event’s organising chairperson, on the need to have more rehabilitation centres to help stroke patients.
He said PTOT units were also available in all major heart centres in urban areas.
He suggested another option – establish sub-centres where the administration and management of patients’ rehabilitation activities could be carried out at home. The care providers for these patients, especially family members, need to be trained to conduct such therapy.
Dr Zulkifli noted that the Social Security Organisation (Socso) had introduced a programme relating to occupational rehabilitation to help patients undergoing physical and occupational therapy.
Socso will bear the cost of the therapy for members to aid their return to work.
“Due to the lack of centres, a large part of the therapy process would have to be home based. Stroke rehabilitation and management requires a lot of discipline.”
In his speech earlier, Dr Zulkifli said the main objective in holding the state-level World Stroke Day was to raise public awareness on  stroke, prevention measures, immediate treatment and rehabilitation.
Public forum, interaction session, health education exhibition and video presentation filled up the day’s programme.

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