Deans' stroke musings: For Older Stroke Patients Cutting a Hole in the Head Helps

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, March 20, 2014

For Older Stroke Patients Cutting a Hole in the Head Helps

All I could think of was this picture
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But in the article they had this statement which I would love to know visually in 3d what the extent of the MCA is, that would allow me to determine what my damage is compared to the maximum a MCA could cause. It seems like an incredibly simple request but I'm sure I'll never find out with the current information out there.
and brain imaging results indicating that ischemia had affected at least two-thirds of the brain served by the middle cerebral artery.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Neurology/Strokes/44841?