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.

Monday, October 27, 2014

Facing up to the Australian Stroke Challenge 2014 - 2050

At least Australia has some sort of plan. I may disagree with parts of it but someone could make factual arguments to get it changed.  The person to talk to to get it changed; National Stroke Foundation Director of Policy and Advocacy Rebecca Smith
on 03 9670 1000 or email rsmith@strokefoundation.com.au.  We in the US have absolutely nothing that is visible or publically correctable. I blame the stroke associations for that failure.
http://t.co/ZAGcPEuN6a
Summary of proposals:
1. Empower Australians to identify and manage their
health risk.
Implement integrated health checks (heart, stroke, diabetes and
chronic kidney disease) in primary care.
2. Increasing the number of Australians eligible to receive
time-critical stroke treatment.
Funding for the FAST stroke signs awareness campaign to build
on the success of the 2014 campaign.
3. Delivering world-best standard stroke care to all
Australians.
Invest in a new national online resource to support stroke
clinicians to improve their adherence to Australian Government
approved best-practice guidelines for stroke.
The best stroke care does not exist!!!
Only 10% get to full recovery.
tPA has a 88% failure rate of reversing the stroke

No protocols to prevent your 33% chance of getting dementia post-stroke

No one knows how to cure spasticity.
No one knows how to cure fatigue 

4. Providing care and support that stroke survivors need
to adjust to life after stroke.
Fund the national rollout of the StrokeConnect follow up
program to ensure no stroke survivor is left to recover from
stroke alone. The funding will deliver one-on-one needs
assessment and service navigation support for survivors as
well as ensuring wide availability of information and education
resources to help ongoing recovery efforts.
5. Research to develop the best ways to aid rehabilitation
efforts and ensure adequate emotional and psychological
support.
Providing funding to establish an Australian Stroke Research
Network and a dedicated stroke research fund with remit to
focus on agreed stroke priorities.

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