Deans' stroke musings: Stroke survivors celebrating their recovery

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

Stroke survivors celebrating their recovery - Newcastle Australia

You'll have to ask your therapist to find Bernadette Matthias PhD research into the impact of choral singing on stroke recovery.
http://www.maitlandmercury.com.au/story/1941165/stroke-survivors-celebrating-their-recovery/?cs=171
A group of Hunter stroke survivors have united to celebrate their recovery through song.
Two stroke rehabilitation study groups will join forces for a combined concert on Sunday as part of the renowned BrainWaves choir.

Conducted by Hunter Medical Research Institute researcher and East Maitland woman Bernadette Matthias, BrainWaves will join other community vocal ensembles in the Making Waves: A Celebration of Song.
Ms Matthias formed the original BrainWaves choir in 2012 as part of her PhD research into the impact of choral singing on stroke recovery.
A second group was recruited in February this year, undergoing a
12-week singing course before making their public debut in June.
The choir recently gained national prominence on the SBS Insight program.
While the results of the study are yet to be published, choir members have reported benefits in their communication skills and well-being.
“There appears to be a rich interconnection between the processes involved in singing and speech,” Ms Matthias said. “So in addition to the benefits for well-being and depression, stimulating the brain by singing might help the
language centre recover as well. “
BrainWaves will perform at the Harold Lobb Concert Hall, at the Newcastle Conservatorium of Music, on Sunday at noon.