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, September 30, 2014

"If you have a stroke in the United States in 2014, you're better off if you're a rodent than if you're a human being."

A John Krakauer    quote. Quite true because you are screwed if you have a stroke right now.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/09/140929-krakauer-medicine-stroke-neurology-rehabilitation/
His presentation "Motor Recovery After Stroke in Mice and Men" at a Johns Hopkins University seminar on brain science research got off to this start: "If you have a stroke in the United States in 2014, you're better off if you're a rodent than if you're a human being."
It was arresting, glib, and, based on what Krakauer has learned through experiments with rats and mice, true. When receiving intensive therapy in a stimulating environment—through interaction with toys, chutes, mirrors, rodent friends, interesting areas to explore—lab rats get better faster. Though humans unquestionably get excellent care at the time of a stroke with the delivery of clot-busting drugs and surveillance for complications, in Krakauer's opinion, standard post-stroke care for humans is intolerably backward.
Current rehabilitation therapies are medieval, Krakauer, a professor of neurology and neuroscience at Hopkins, told the audience of science writers. "It's time for a revolution."
A Rebel With a Cause
John Walter Krakauer is 47 years old and wears narrow rectangular blue eyeglasses that confer a kind of wry, postmodern look. The tone (British in accent) is by turns ironic, questioning (science, he says, is all about doubts and questions—not methodology), and supremely self-assured. To his patients he is compassionate, respectful, and accessible. He does not wear a white coat when making rounds and will unhesitatingly order a neurology resident who is more focused on email than on the patient to leave the room. (Related: "Virtual Dolphin on a Mission".)

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1 comment:

  1. I love this approach, but it is too late for me, since I am 3.5 years post stroke. In May 2013 I only had 10 days of in-patient rehab at sub-acute stage, because that was all my insurance would pay for at $2 grand a day! I was at one of the best rehab places in Portland Oregon and I saw nothing beyond the simplest games with wooden blocks & gym equipment. Dr. Krakauer's assessment of stroke rehab is right on. Pathetic!

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