Deans' stroke musings: Stroke patients pay penalty for high costs, lack of facilities

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, May 15, 2015

Stroke patients pay penalty for high costs, lack of facilities - India

This wouldn't be quite such a problem if the neuronal cascade of death is prevented. There would be much less dead and damaged neurons and existing stroke rehab would be more successful.
http://www.bangaloremirror.com/bangalore/others/Stroke-patients-pay-penalty-for-high-costs-lack-of-facilities/articleshow/47272899.cms
A shocking 90 per cent of Indians who suffer strokes go home directly instead of a therapeutic rehabilitation centre. This is due to high costs of rehabilitation, lack of professional rehabilitation centres in the country and - the most striking of them all - doctors failing to stress on stroke patients going to rehabilitation centres. And this is found to be more damaging than otherwise.

These are findings of a nationwide analytical project carried out by Bengaluru-based St John's Research Institute (SJRI) on 11,001 stroke patients from 61 hospitals across 22 states in India. The project is Indian Stroke Perspective Registry (Inspire), which was started in 2009 and funded by National Heart Lung and Blood Institute/United Health.

More at link.