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, June 24, 2014

Framework for rehabilitation decisions after stroke - 1997 version

 From a 1997 article in Stroke magazine.
http://stroke.ahajournals.org/content/28/7/1522.full
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Australia at least has these:
Acute Stroke Services Framework
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I can't find anything newer so you'll have to ask your doctor;
What is your framework for getting me to 100% recovery?
Lets analyze;
1. Nothing on what to do if the patient is not able to learn. Damn it you give them cognitive training.
2. No  questions on fatigue
2. Nothing on what the doctor should be doing - other than letting millions of neurons die during the first week due to the neuronal cascade of death.

This is fucking pathetic even for 17 years ago. And for this crap you are actually paying your doctor?

http://stroke.ahajournals.org/content/28/7/1522/F1.large.jpg
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  1. AnonymousJune 26, 2014 at 7:32 AM

    Dean, Came across your blogs doing research on stroke treatments, what's new, Nothing! My son had a stroke 15 yrs ago, he was 13 and I searched everywhere for recovery info or for any info at the time (without the help of computers!) His defeicts, rt hemiparesis, helping hand, foot drop. Bad enough but after a long illness he had another stoke on the opposite side and you know the protocal has not changed in 15 years. We've got nothing from the doctors, no info unless we are in their faces. Granted they consider him an adult we just get in the way. Therapies are the same 15 yrs later, the stretching, e-stim, exercising, AFOs No breakout treatments. Trust me back in 1998 we did anything to aid in his recovery. And he's at the one of the top hospitals, they're getting him functional and dropping him in our laps. Thanks you for all the info and research, makes me so angry and frustrated there's nothing we or it seems anyone else can for him.

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