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.

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Running post-stroke

This is one of my long term goals. I know it's possible because others have done it already. Your PT should know all about these and have protocols to give to accomplish that goal.
But since your PT won't have a protocol you'll have to cobble something together on your own.

My seven guides and instructors are:
1. Tommye K. Meyer, author of Teaching Me to Run
I had to buy this book because library use is not long enough.
2. Ida Dempsey, Writer of blog - Dream Run
3. Krissy, writer of blog - Not Fast Just Fabulous
4. Robert B Martinez - http://www.marathonguide.com/features/FMStories/RobertMartinez.cfm
5. John Murphy - http://www.ric.org/about/ric-patient-stories/stroke-john-murphy-story/
6. NELSON GRAVES - http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/25/after-a-stroke-running-a-half-marathon/?
7. There was a guy in a stroke survivor group in Minneapolis who told me about starting running again, 50 yards to begin with.

Wait, wait, there is an APTA report;