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, July 15, 2014

How Plastic Is the Brain after a Stroke?

Is your doctor telling you these important details about recovery or are they just negative Nellies? And does this review even mention Pedro Bach-y-Rita? Does your doctor know about Pedro?
http://nro.sagepub.com/content/20/4/359?etoc
  1. Michelle L. Starkey1
  2. Martin E. Schwab2,3
  1. 1Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  2. 2Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  3. 3Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  1. Michelle L. Starkey, University of Zurich, Balgrist University Hospital, Forchstrasse 340, CH-8008 Zurich, Switzerland Email: mstarkey@paralab.balgrist.ch

Abstract

Stroke is a common problem, and with an aging population, it is likely to become more so. Outcomes from stroke are wide ranging from death to complete recovery, but the majority result in severe motor impairments that affect quality of life and become a burden on health care systems, family, and friends. Therapeutically, removal of thromboses can greatly improve outcomes, but for many stroke sufferers, the only currently available therapy is rehabilitative training in which spared brain areas and fiber tracts are strengthened and trained to take over new functions. Experimental data in animals show that this is in part based on changes in the connectivity of the brain and spinal cord and on the growth of new nerve fiber branches, a process called structural plasticity. So, just how plastic is the brain after a stroke? In this review, we explore the factors that affect plasticity after strokes, such as age and the overall size and location of the lesion. We discuss the peri-infarct area as extensive research has shown that processes occurring there are likely to be involved mechanistically in plastic changes in cortical circuitry. Finally, we review promising interventions being tested preclinically and discuss those that have been translated into clinical research. (Note the weasel words here, promising not specifying how efficacious these are)
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