Deans' stroke musings: TIRR Memorial Hermann is one of three U.S. sites participating in stroke trial

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, June 19, 2015

TIRR Memorial Hermann is one of three U.S. sites participating in stroke trial - Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS)

Vagus nerve stimulation has been written about since July, 2012.
And just when the hell will the research be enough to create a stroke protocol? Ask your doctor that exact question. And don't be polite about it.
TIRR Memorial Hermann is one of three U.S. sites participating in stroke trial - Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS)
TIRR Memorial Hermann is taking part in a clinical trial aimed at assessing Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) during rehabilitation for improved upper limb motor function following a stroke. According to the American Heart Association, someone in the United States has a stroke every 40 seconds and stroke is a leading cause of disability in the United States.

The goal of this research is to improve and maximize arm and hand function in stroke survivors. The current study is an extension of a clinical trial conducted last year in Europe. Following the European clinical trial, some patients were able to resume daily activities like driving, cooking, and taking care of young children.

TIRR Memorial Hermann is one of only three sites in the United States participating in this trial. Dr. Gerard E. Francisco, chief medical officer at TIRR Memorial Hermann and Professor and Chairman of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department (PM&R) at UT-Health and Dr. Nuray Yozabitran, researcher in the UTHealth Neuromodulation and Neural Interfaces Laboratory at TIRR Memorial Hermann’s NeuroRecovery Research Center are coordinating the Houston trial.