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.

Friday, November 29, 2013

636,120 Ways to Have Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

And stroke is one of them. Is your doctor diagnosing you with this? Does your doctor even know about this?
1.  PTSD May Be Barrier to Stroke Recovery
2.  Prevalence of PTSD in Survivors of Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack: A Meta-Analytic Review 
 Check out yourself here;
1.  Screening for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
2.  POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER SELF-TEST


636,120 Ways to Have Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
  1. Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy1
  2. Richard A. Bryant2
  1. 1New York University School of Medicine
  2. 2University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia
  1. Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy, New York University School of Medicine, 1 Park Ave, New York, NY 10016 E-mail: isaac.gl@gmail.com

Abstract

In an attempt to capture the variety of symptoms that emerge following traumatic stress, the revision of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) criteria in the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5) has expanded to include additional symptom presentations. One consequence of this expansion is that it increases the amorphous nature of the classification. Using a binomial equation to elucidate possible symptom combinations, we demonstrate that the DSM–IV criteria listed for PTSD have a high level of symptom profile heterogeneity (79,794 combinations); the changes result in an eightfold expansion in the DSM–5, to 636,120 combinations. In this article, we use the example of PTSD to discuss the limitations of DSM-based diagnostic entities for classification in research by elucidating inherent flaws that are either specific artifacts from the history of the DSM or intrinsic to the underlying logic of the DSM’s method of classification. We discuss new directions in research that can provide better information regarding both clinical and nonclinical behavioral heterogeneity in response to potentially traumatic and common stressful life events. These empirical alternatives to an a priori classification system hold promise for answering questions about why diversity occurs in response to stressors.

1 comment:

  1. The psychological component to all of this is very significant. Even though I was never depressed, I sought out therapy at about 6months. She thought I had PTSD and treated me for it. I think it was really helpful and could have been a barrier to further recovery had I just "ignored" it. I think mental health has a huge impact on phyisical recovery, and treating the mind, body, spirit, is one of the keys to improved recovery!

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