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

Stroke 'causes 60% loss of quality years'

Hell, my quality of life has improved tremendously since my stroke. You just aren't asking the right questions.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/267090.php
For every 5 quality years of life, 3 are taken away for people who have had a stroke, long-term research has found - a loss of 60%.
The study, published in Neurology, the journal of the American Academy of Neurology, involved 1,188 patients - 748 who had a stroke and 440 who had a transient ischemic attack (TIA). Researchers followed these patients for 5 years.
The researchers used a measure called utility, which put a numerical value on the desirability of various health outcomes for patients responding to a questionnaire.
Utility represents quality of life in single numbers along a continuum, extending from 0.0 (death) to 1.0 ("perfect health"). A negative value represents a state "worse than death."

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  1. 4C1ROctober 13, 2013 at 10:44 AM

    What are the right questions?

    How has your quality of life improved?

    I recently read your post about how if it hasn't been five years, you probably haven't reached acceptance yet. I've just passed my one-year mark. I don't think I've found acceptance yet. You may have a post already about how long it's been for you and whether you've reached acceptance, but if I go to look for it, I'll forget why, and get distracted by something else and never send this, so I apologize for not knowing your background yet.

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