Deans' stroke musings: Spasticity after stroke: Physiology, assessment and treatment.

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

Spasticity after stroke: Physiology, assessment and treatment.

I blame Dr. William M. Landau for this absence of guidelines for treatment. Hopefully no one is listening to his pronouncements anymore. Don't you know spasticity is natural and good for you just like arsenic is natural and good for you.
http://search.naric.com/research/rehab/redesign_record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=J67270&phrase=no&rec=123070
NARIC Accession Number: J67270. What's this?
ISSN: 0269-9052.
Author(s): Thibaut, Aurore; Chatelle, Camille; Ziegler, Erik; Bruno, Marie-Aurelie; Laureys, Steven; Gosseries, Olivia.
Publication Year: 2013.
Number of Pages: 13.
Abstract: Article defines spasticity, describes hypotheses explaining its development after a stroke, and provides an overview of related neuroimaging studies as well as a description of the most common scales used to quantify the degree of spasticity. It also explores treatments currently being used to treat this disorder. The lack of consensus is highlighted on the basis of spasticity and the associated absence of guidelines for treatment, use of drugs, and rehabilitation programs. Future studies require controlled protocols to determine the efficiency of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments for spasticity. Neuroimaging may help predict the occurrence of spasticity and could provide insight into its neurological basis.