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.

Friday, January 9, 2015

Subliminal Strengthening Improving Older Individuals’ Physical Function Over Time With an Implicit-Age-Stereotype Intervention

What stroke protocol is your doctor following to make sure that positive age stereotypes are presented to survivors so as not to worsen your recovery?
http://pss.sagepub.com/content/25/12/2127.abstract

  1. Becca R. Levy1
  2. Corey Pilver2
  3. Pil H. Chung3,4
  4. Martin D. Slade5
  1. 1Social and Behavioral Sciences Division, School of Public Health, Yale University
  2. 2Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Yale University
  3. 3Department of Demography, University of California, Berkeley
  4. 4Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
  5. 5Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University
  1. Becca R. Levy, Yale University, Social and Behavioral Sciences Division, School of Public Health, 60 College St., P. O. Box 208034, New Haven, CT 06520-8034 E-mail: becca.levy@yale.edu
  1. Author Contributions B. R. Levy developed the study concept. B. R. Levy, P. H. Chung, and C. Pilver developed the study design. C. Pilver oversaw data collection and data entry. C. Pilver and M. D. Slade conducted data analysis. B. R. Levy drafted and revised the manuscript with advice from the other authors.

Abstract

Negative age stereotypes that older individuals assimilate from their culture predict detrimental outcomes, including worse physical function. We examined, for the first time, whether positive age stereotypes, presented subliminally across multiple sessions in the community, would lead to improved outcomes. Each of 100 older individuals (age = 61–99 years, M = 81) was randomly assigned to an implicit-positive-age-stereotype-intervention group, an explicit-positive-age-stereotype-intervention group, a combined implicit- and explicit-positive-age-stereotype-intervention group, or a control group. Interventions occurred at four 1-week intervals. The implicit intervention strengthened positive age stereotypes, which strengthened positive self-perceptions of aging, which, in turn, improved physical function. The improvement in these outcomes continued for 3 weeks after the last intervention session. Further, negative age stereotypes and negative self-perceptions of aging were weakened. For all outcomes, the implicit intervention’s impact was greater than the explicit intervention’s impact. The physical-function effect of the implicit intervention surpassed a previous study’s 6-month-exercise-intervention’s effect with participants of similar ages. The current study’s findings demonstrate the potential of directing implicit processes toward physical-function enhancement over time.

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