Deans' stroke musings: Rehabilitation of Severe Stroke

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.

Saturday, January 11, 2014

Rehabilitation of Severe Stroke

With all the problems of rehabbing severe strokes it would seem obvious to all except for those blind idiots in the stroke world that stopping the neuronal cascade of death will result in less severe strokes.
http://www.ebrsr.com/uploads/Chapter-23_Severe-Stroke_FINAL_16ed.pdf

Abstract

Severe strokes often result in multiple disabilities and constitute not only the most disabled group of stroke patients but also the greatest rehabilitation challenge. On a per-person basis, severe stroke patients incur the greatest costs to the healthcare system, primarily due to increased length of stay(LOS) in hospital and the frequent need for expensive long-term care or institutionalization

(Navarrete-Navarro et al. 2003)

Research relating to the definition, classification, neuro

recovery and rehabilitation

of severe strokes is provided in this review. Clinical evidence

for various severe stroke rehabilitation models are discussed(including slow-stream, intensive care unit (ICU), and specialized interdisciplinary stroke rehabilitation).

Ethical dialogue pertaining to severe stroke is also presented.