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.

Monday, July 21, 2014

Government needs to focus on stroke rehab - New Zealand

And you, Stroke Foundation CEO Mark Vivian, need to learn where the focus should be on stroke research. It's not rehab, that has only a 10% chance of getting to full recovery. It's stopping the neuronal cascade of death. You New Zealanders will need to educate him on what is the best way to reduce stroke disability. His pronouncements do not leave me with a warm feeling that he understands at all. He then joins the presidents of the ASA, NSA and WSO in being obtuse about where stroke research should be going. If only we had a survivor-driven organization, that would keep their eye on the correct goal.

And yes, I am damn arrogant in thinking that I know more that these 'supposed' stroke professionals.

http://www.nzdoctor.co.nz/un-doctored/2014/july-2014/21/government-needs-to-focus-on-stroke-rehab.aspx
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  1. Barb PolanJuly 21, 2014 at 4:43 PM

    I disagree that research should not go into rehab because of only 10% recovery. What we need is rehab that actually works better than 10% recovering. And this article talks about, not funding research into rehab, but throwing more resources at using conventional rehab methods - just allowing survivors to go to more rehab, not better rehab.

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