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.

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Australia - first hand therapy aims to close gap

I would like to know how they will ENSURE hand therapy works. Send your doctor off on a quest to find out how they are doing that. If its good enough for Australia it should be good enough for the world. Ensure sounds like 100% recovery, hold them to that standard.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/aust-first-hand-therapy-aims-to-close-gap/story-fni0xqi4-1226801570570
IN an Australian first, Royal Melbourne Hospital has launched a rehab clinic providing dedicated support to ensure stroke victims regain use of their hands and arms.
The standard three-week rehabilitation course for public stroke patients is focused on getting them to walk out the door in the limited timeframe. That typically comes at the expense of hand therapy, which means menial tasks such as making a cup of tea, hugging a loved one or even doing up the buttons on a shirt often becomes an Everest-shaped hurdle.
But the rehab clinic, the Hand Hub, is now trying to bridge that divide.
The 750 patients expected to complete their rehab at the Hand Hub this year will use a series of specifically designed video games to restore the dexterity and strength in their hands.
Professor Fary Khan, the hospital's director of rehabilitation services, says the program is the first in Australia dedicated to hand and arm therapy.
"There's a limited timeframe we have to work with limited resources so the focus of course is to get patients to be able to turn in bed, to sit up, to walk.
"As a result we see people in the community years after a stroke who have been discharged with inadequate support and treatment and still have no movement in their arm," she said.
The Hand Hub was set up with a $220,000 state government grant, but more funding is needed if the hospital is to expand its program and have a widespread impact.
Prof Khan envisions a set-up that would allow one therapist to monitor up to 10 patients as they work through the program on their computer at home.
Sixty per cent of public patients are discharged after a stroke or brain injury with impaired hand function, Prof Khan said.
"They're just sitting there, totally dependent on their loved ones," she said.
"You can't measure those hours a carer puts in and it's not just the personal cost of that but the economic burden loss of employment that flows on from that.
"This is an attempt to address that gap in services."

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