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.

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Memory Training in the ACTIVE Study How Much is Needed and Who Benefits?

I would think that stroke survivors should get this type of training. You do want better memory after stroke, don't you? Then ask your doctor for it because your doctor won't even know about this.
http://jah.sagepub.com/content/25/8_suppl/21S.abstract
  1. George W. Rebok, PhD1,6
  2. Jessica B. S. Langbaum, PhD2
  3. Richard N. Jones, ScD3,4
  4. Alden L. Gross, PhD, MHS1,3
  5. Jeanine M. Parisi, PhD1
  6. Adam P. Spira, PhD1
  7. Alexandra M. Kueider, MS1
  8. Hanno Petras, PhD1,5
  9. Jason Brandt, PhD1,6,7
  1. 1Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
  2. 2Banner Alzheimer’s Institute, Phoenix, AZ and Arizona Alzheimer’s Consortium, Phoenix, AZ, USA
  3. 3Hebrew SeniorLife, Boston, MA, USA
  4. 4Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
  5. 5Research and Development Center, JBS International, Inc., North Bethesda, MD, USA
  6. 6Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
  7. 7The Copper Ridge Institute, Sykesville, MD, USA
  1. George W. Rebok, PhD, Department of Mental Health, Hampton House 891, The Johns Hopkins University, 624 North Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205-1901, USA. Email: grebok@jhsph.edu

Abstract

Objective and Method: Data from the memory training arm (n = 629) of the Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly (ACTIVE) trial were examined to characterize change in memory performance through 5 years of follow-up as a function of memory training, booster training, adherence to training, and other characteristics. Results: Latent growth model analyses revealed that memory training was associated with improved memory performance through Year 5 but that neither booster training nor training adherence significantly influenced this effect. Baseline age was associated with change in memory performance attributable to the passage of time alone (i.e., to aging). Higher education and better self-rated health were associated with greater change in memory performance after training. Discussion: These findings confirm that memory training can aid in maintaining long-term improvements in memory performance. Booster training and adherence to training do not appear to attenuate rates of normal age-related memory decline.
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