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.

Friday, August 8, 2014

Fatigue after stroke: a major but neglected issue

Someplace I saw that 70% of survivors report being fatigued, but can't find that right now.
So here is a bunch of research on stroke fatigue.

You will notice that not a single one mentions anything about solving it. You're on your own just like every other f*cking problem you have from the stroke.

Fatigue after stroke: a major but neglected issue

Subjective fatigue, defined as a feeling of early exhaustion developing during mental activity, with weariness, lack of energy and aversion to effort, remains virtually unstudied in patients with stroke,

Fatigue after stroke 
Forty percent of the stroke group reported that fatigue was either their worst or one of their worst symptoms. 

Psychological Associations of Poststroke Fatigue 

Fatigue is common after stroke but has no effective treatments.

 

 

 

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  1. J.L. MurpheyAugust 10, 2014 at 5:10 PM

    The way my neurologist explained it to me after my stroke was the fatigue was the result of nerve impulses having to run marathons around damaged areas. My brain was using about five times as much energy as it used to. Simplistic, but sounds reasonable.

    Even two years after my stroke, I still suffer with the fatigue. Not as bad as it was but it's still there. Her suggestion was to conserve energy and pace myself better with the energy stores I did have. Medicines also play a role in this fatigue also...too much muscle relaxers to combat spasticity and high tone.

    Short of taking amphetamines, there is no answer.

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