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, July 27, 2014

What should our stroke hospitals have available for all stroke patients

1. Published statistics on death rates, 100% recovery rates. Absolutely necessary since if you don't know what is going wrong you can't correct it. If your hospital doesn't know this you have a failed hospital, never go there.
2. A protocol  on what is being done the first week to stop the neuronal cascade of death. If you get the statement, 'There is no clinical research for any neuroprotective treatment in the first week' as I did from Sparrow hospital in Lansing,MI, run to another hospital as soon as you are stabilized. This is proof that your hospital is not reading research and obviously is not concerned about all of your brain cells they are allowing to die.
3. Written protocols on therapy for penumbra recovery. Including efficacy.
4. Written protocols on dead brain recovery.  Including efficacy.
5. Stroke prevention diet.
6. Specific dementia prevention protocols.  Including efficacy.
7. Spasticity solutions, not the muscle relaxer drugs.
8. Solutions for fatigue.  Including efficacy.
9. Repeatable protocols to get neuroplasticity to work.
10. Cognitive enhancement protocols.  Including efficacy.


Your hospital likely doesn't have any of these, but the real question to be answered is; Are they researching solutions to these on their own?

ARE YOU WAITING FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM?

Like the stupidity of Get With the Guidelines or the Joint Commission guidelines?
If the latter they need to read Seth Godin books, 'Poke the Box' , 'The Icarus Deception' and 'Linchpin'. This means they are a failed stroke center if they don't have a team actively improving their stroke care and protocols.
Start calling your hospital president and DEMAND to know when this will be available in the stroke department. Bypass the stroke department head because if they were good they would already have all this available.
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