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.

Friday, April 11, 2014

Can Biochemical Markers in the Blood Detect Concussions?

Same questions for stroke and TBI. Whom is going to research that for diagnosis purposes?
http://www.sportsmedres.org/2014/04/biochemical-markers-in-blood-detect-brain-injury.html
Shahim P., Tegner Y., Wilson DH., Randall J., Skillback T., Pazooki D., Kallberg B., Blennow K., Zetterberg H. JAMA Neurol. 2014; E1-E9.
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Take Home Message: Biochemical markers in the blood, like T-tau, are elevated after a concussion and are associated with recovery time. These markers may eventually be developed into clinical tools to determine diagnosis and prognosis after concussions as well as to devise improved return-to-play decisions. 

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  1. Rebecca DuttonApril 12, 2014 at 10:19 AM

    I hope blood testing will prove to be useful because athletes have learned to perform poorly on their concussion baseline test questions.

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