Now that I have your attention.
There are none!
By the time the neuronal cascade of death has passed you have one option for recovery - neuroplasticity, Neurogenesis might help but no one yet knows how to usefully direct it to help recovery. Stem cells are decades in the future, anyone selling them now is a charlatan.
Your neurologist and therapists really don't do much for your recovery, they may suggest/direct some of your exercises but you have to do all the work. No work, no recovery. Sitting on your ass is useless unless it is to meditate. Stroke recovery is damned hard work.
Peter Levine refers to this several times.
Barb touches this in her survivors guilt post.
But what about finding the best neurologist in the world?
Amy writes on that;
I refer to it here in the fallacy lots of stroke survivors have.
If I just find the right therapist or therapy I'll recover.
And a quote from Dr. Steven Wolf, a rehabilitation stroke expert and professor at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. "Stroke patients need to rely more on their own problem solving to regain mobility".
This implicitly states that your neurologist knows nothing about how to get you recovered. Talk to any knowledgeable survivor out there and none will state that their neurologist was the best thing for their recovery.
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