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, April 14, 2015

Money spent on dementia and stroke too low, say researchers - UK

And the only way I see to fix this is to have our stroke associations go directly for grant money and use that for stroke research. Bypass the government.  We can't let our stroke researchers come up with their own research ideas. We need to be following a strategy if we ever expect to solve stroke.  Swinging for the fences like with stem cells is not the way to do this.
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/main-topics/general-news/money-spent-on-dementia-and-stroke-too-low-say-researchers-1-7207621

AMOUNTS OF money spent on research into dementia and stroke in the UK are still far too low, experts warn today.

Analysis of funding for research into the four main causes of death and disability in the UK - cancer, heart disease, dementia and stroke - found just 10 per cent was allocated to dementia and seven per cent to stroke research.
The study, led by researchers at Oxford University, said this was despite these conditions having huge economic and personal impact, with the social care costs of dementia outweighing that of the other three conditions combined.
The combined amount of research funding allocated by the Government and charities to all four conditions came to £855 million in 2012, almost two-thirds of which (64 per cent or £546m) was spent on cancer.
Around one fifth (19 per cent or £165m) was devoted to heart disease, with £85m on dementia and £58m on stroke research.
That same year, there were around 2.3m cases of cancer, the same number of coronary heart disease cases, 800,000 cases of dementia and 1.2m of stroke, the study said.
The costs of healthcare were highest for cancer (£4.4 billion) and lowest for dementia, at £1.4bn, while stroke was £1.8bn.
But researchers found that the social care costs of dementia outweighed the social care costs of the other three conditions combined.

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