Deans' stroke musings: Is there any hope for 100% recovery for any survivor?

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.

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Is there any hope for 100% recovery for any survivor?

Slim to none. It almost surely is based upon the size and location, Your doctor and therapists will have no idea if you are in that 10%. And almost nothing they do will get you there. You are the only person who can get you to full recovery.
Statistics from 2009 from the ASA suggest only 10% get there. There seems to be no data collection or database of survivors or recovery protocols.
If you follow the F.A.S.T. guidelines and get to a stroke hospital quickly enough to get tPA, that barely improves your possibility of recovery. Only 12% efficacy. And it improves your recovery chances by 33%. That is failure on a grand scale.
But for my personal story, I'm probably alive today because I got tPA within 90 minutes. Continuing down this route is stupidity personified. All the press releases aside, they are lying by omission by implying that all you have to do is get to a stroke hospital in 3-4.5 hours and all will be well. This story about the older lady having a stroke at a BBQ and not recognizing it are symptomatic of the lies being told about stroke recovery.