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, June 9, 2015

Control or resilience - stroke applications

This needs to be applied to stroke. A great discussion from Seth Godin
Since we never will be able to prevent all strokes or TBIs we need to be able to address the problems caused by these events. But our stroke associations continue to go down this route because it is easier. Leaders tackle the tough problems. We have NO leaders in stroke.
1. Knowing exactly how neuroplasticity works and make it repeatable upon command. We currently don't know why and how a neuron takes on a neighbors task and drops it's own task. Until we figure that out neuroplasticity is not really that useful.
2. Knowing how to create neurogenesis. And angiogenesis to support the new neurons.
3. Knowing how to direct neurogenesis to the areas needing help.
4. Stem cells - I don't consider this very useful right now, this is basically a moon shot with almost no hope of success.
Resilience would be working on the first three since we will never be able to control factors enough to prevent all stroke and TBIs.
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