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, November 11, 2014

Can Strength Training Improve Your Recovery?

If this works we should have hundreds of physical therapists following this and writing up stroke protocols based on this.  And since this is in Stroke Smart magazine from the National Stroke Association I would expect that they are writing up such stroke protocols. But I know that is not occurring.  We are totally on our own as Dr. Steven Wolf writes, a rehabilitation stroke expert and professor at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.  "Stroke patients need to rely more on their own problem solving to regain mobility".
http://www.strokesmart.org/new?id=282
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  1. Rebecca DuttonNovember 12, 2014 at 12:01 PM

    I agree with Dr. Wolf's statement about needing problem solving to regain mobility. However, people with more severe strokes may not be able to solve problems "on their own." Therapists need to assess mobility during a functional task and prompt patients to solve a problem if needed (e.g, what can you do when you get your foot caught on the leg of a chair). Telling a patient the solution or providing physical assistance when a patient gets in trouble makes the treatment session go faster, but it does not promote problem solving skills. I would go a step further and say problem solving training should be given to the caregiver when a stroke is so severe that the patient cannot do it him or herself.

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