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

Pay it Forward

This doesn't have to be a totally selfless act. In our case as stroke survivors, we can be of the most help for future survivors(including our selves and our next stroke).
Tell the world that everyone has a 1 in 6 chance of having a stroke according to the WHO.
Tell your 80 and 90 year old parents they are totally screwed if they get a stroke because their doctors and stroke associations have been sleeping on the job for 50 years.
Demand and get in your doctors face about what they are going to do to get to 100% recovery after their stroke. This is not the time to be polite, put the damned fear of whatever god they have into them.
Contact your local and national stroke associations and demand action on prevention of neuronal cascade of death. Don't let them sidetrack you into their explanation that prevention and F.A.S.T. are useful.
In other words tell everyone you know that stroke rehabilitation is a total failure.
10% full recovery is a colossal failure and if anybody defends that, ask if they would go to a doctor for a life or death operation that had that success rate.

Your life may depend on how successfully you can do this.
We need to get stroke to the tipping point so its talked about and feared as much as Alzheimers.
The existing doctor associations and stroke associations are craptastically failing.

Or you can assuage your mind with these little ideas;
60 Selfless Ways to Pay It Forward
SpreadKindness.org
Ideas on Paying It Forward