Deans' stroke musings: Hollywood Treatment for the Rehabilitation of Facial Palsy and Stroke Patients

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.

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Hollywood Treatment for the Rehabilitation of Facial Palsy and Stroke Patients

Maybe something for your doctor to consider.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hollywood-treatment-for-the-rehabilitation-of-facial-palsy-and-stroke-patients-279783772.html

Britain's largest conference bringing together experts from the reconstructive, cosmetic and non-surgical worlds witnessed this weekend the unveiling of new technology to help treat facial paralysis; developed by a plastic surgeon and the animation teams that worked on blockbusters such as Harry Potter, The Mummy, bestselling video game Grand Theft Auto and the L'Oréal 'Makeup Genius' app.

Revolutionary new iPad software to aid the rehabilitation of patients with facial palsy conditions including those stemming from strokes was introduced to an audience of more than 3,000 surgeons, doctors and nurses at the Clinical Cosmetic and Reconstructive Expo in London Olympia, 10-11 October, 2014.

The project, which is part-funded by the Wellcome Trust is a collaboration between researchers at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, Brighton-based technology company Sense Innovation, and Image Metrics, a leading film computer graphics company in Manchester. Past facial animation credits of Image Metrics include Harry Potter, The Mummy, and The Curious Tale of Benjamin Button, starring a reversely-ageing Brad Pitt.

Facial palsy is a debilitating condition in which the muscles in the face are weakened, causing a variety of symptoms ranging from numbness to total paralysis of the features. Facial palsy can be caused by a variety of factors, including infections such as Bell's palsy or Lyme Disease, neurological conditions, strokes and developmental syndromes.