And yet most acupuncturists point to China and its overwhelming use of acupuncture for strokes as the reason for using that placebo.
The real problem here is not lack of rehabilitation, its the lack of preventing more disability by stopping the neuronal cascade of death.
http://english.eastday.com/e/131023/u1a7730764.html
A LACK of after-surgery rehabilitation has resulted in a high percentage of
disability among the 10.36 million stroke survivors over 40 years old in the
nation, experts said.
Compared with the 80 percent rehabilitation rate of stroke survivors in
Western countries, over 70 percent of Chinese patients who survived stroke were
left with disorders like paralysis and serious language deficiencies. About 40
percent of them have very serious disabilities.
Early detection and treatment while a stroke is taking place, effective
therapy and rehabilitation afterwards are all keys for patients' survival and
recovery.
Stroke patients who receive early and effective rehabilitation training have
a three times higher recovery rate than those who don't receive rehabilitation,
said Wang Yanni from Pinetree China, a private company that calls itself the
nation's first professional facility offering at-home care and service for
after-surgery patients or those needing rehabilitation after surviving
diseases.
Teamed up with domestic elderly care organizations, Pinetree announced it
will offer free rehabilitation for 20,000 after-stroke patients living in
Beijing and Shanghai in the following year.
And I suspect you will delete this post. It seems, to me, that to reduce the number of disabled stroke survivors, the easiest thing to do would be to NOT rush in and "save" them, but allow them to die. Being left as badly disabled as a stroke victim often is, would be a normal person's greatest fear, yet the medical organisations inflict this punishment on thousands of people, and induce a burden on their relatives to endure for many years. I doubt that ANY "doctor" would not have an end of life directive that stipulates that they should not be kept alive after suffering a major stroke (a TIA is an entirely different thing). When I was to be discharged, the Social Worker said to my parents, 'You'll have trouble with that one" Obviously the neurologist would have been able to see that amongst my multiple physical disabilities, i no longer have the ability to feel real pleasure. Now they (the doctors) knew this but thought it was fine to force me to go on surviving, never knowing any sort of pleasure. That, to me, was submitting me to the highest form of torture. So I went home, and have endured 30 years of misery, stole 22 years from my ex who could have spent the time looking for a real woman as a wife, , and maimed my dog badly, then forced her to go on surviving for another 4 years of pain, confusion and fear. Meanwhile my ex was able to draw a Carers pension, whilst Ii could not get a Disability Pension, and, later, after he left me, I was able to get a minimal pension, whilst obviously he was not receiving any payment. So the cost to the taxpayer has been around $100,000+ which would not have been incurred if I was in the ground.
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