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.

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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, August 17, 2014

Contracture: understanding mechanisms and testing treatments

One more sequalae about stroke we know nothing about.  Damn, is there anything that our doctors know about treating stroke problems?
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http://blog.neura.edu.au/2014/08/18/contracture/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=contracture
There has been surprisingly little research into the mechanisms of contracture. As a result, the mechanisms are poorly understood. - See more at: http://blog.neura.edu.au/2014/08/18/contracture/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=contracture#sthash.eOop3nIO.dpuf
 There has been surprisingly little research into the mechanisms of contracture. As a result, the mechanisms are poorly understood. 

Who the hell is tasked with solving these problems? They've only been around since stroke was known about.
One more thing you as a survivor is going to have to solve or prevent on your own.
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  1. Rebecca DuttonAugust 18, 2014 at 1:25 PM

    Where did the myth that splinting a body part in one position for long periods of time would prevent contractures come from? I use passive positioning to relax my spastic muscles so it is easier to do active exercise. It is the active exercise that has changed my outcome. Why do researchers still study splint vs no splint groups when this paradigm is never used in the clinic? I would like to see research that asks what happens when active exercise is maintained but splints are eliminated..

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