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.

Sunday, June 1, 2014

Ask your doctor, 'How would you recover 100% from your stroke?

Don't just take your doctors pronouncements without questioning them.
And we are in an argument with our doctors even if they do not acknowledge it. The argument is 'Why do only 10% of stroke survivors get to almost 100% recovery?'

The Secret To Winning An Argument Is Ridiculously Simple

Those in the second group did something subtly different. Rather than provide reasons, they were asked to explain how the policy they were advocating would work. They were asked to trace, step by step, from start to finish, the causal path from the policy to the effects it was supposed to have.

If you want to change someone's opinion, ask them how they would do something instead of why

If you hear, 'All strokes are different, all stroke recoveries are different' then you have a doctor that needs to explain precisely step by step what the hell that means. And don't let them buffalo you with bullshit or large equivocating words. What should come out of their mouths is, 'I don't know but these are some possibilities that might help. We have these initiatives being researched.' Don't let them get away with the simplistic stupidity of 'We need to prevent strokes in the first place.'

As Donald Rumsfeld said, "As you know, you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time." Bullshit, you change the army and equipment to make it better. The exact same thing applies to your stroke doctor.

Are they as incompetent/not willing to work to make things better as Donald Rumsfeld?

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