Deans' stroke musings: Biogen experimental drug shows evidence of optic nerve repair

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.

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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.

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Biogen experimental drug shows evidence of optic nerve repair

I have not heard if myelin repair is something we need post-stroke. Ask your doctor three questions;
1. Has demyelination occurred in your white matter?
2. How much damage is there?
3. What therapy protocols will fix that? And is this a possible solution?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/08/us-biogen-pharmaceuticals-study-idUSKBN0KH17R20150108

“This is the first clinical trial to provide evidence of biological repair in the central nervous system by facilitating remyelination following an acute inflammatory injury,” Alfred Sandrock, Biogen chief medical officer said in a statement.
Remyelination is the regeneration of the insulating myelin sheath of a nerve.

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