Deans' stroke musings: Portable Neuromodulation Stimulator (PoNS) device

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.

Sunday, February 22, 2015

Portable Neuromodulation Stimulator (PoNS) device

One of the chapters in Norman Doidges new book discusses this with respect to Parkinsons, stroke, and multiple sclerosis. You'll have to see what your doctor thinks on this and what protocols have been designed with its use in mind. More than likely your doctor has not heard of it. Good luck.

Portable Neuromodulation Stimulator (PoNS) device

About The PoNS
The Portable Neuromodulation Stimulator (PoNS) device is an investigational medical device being studied for the treatment of neurological symptoms caused by disease or trauma. The PoNS is currently being studied in the United States for the treatment of balance disorder related to mild to moderate Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI), and in Canada for the treatment of gait and balance disorder for patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). It represents the first in a series of non-invasive devices – based on the patented PoNS platform – designed to amplify the brain’s powerful ability to heal itself. This is part of a new approach being studied for symptom treatment for the rising number of patients who have experienced loss of function as a result of neurological disease or trauma.