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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.

Saturday, September 19, 2015

Decreased risk of acute myocardial infarction in stroke patients receiving acupuncture treatment: a nationwide matched retrospective cohort study

Since there is no proof that acupuncture works at all they didn't look hard enough at the other factors that may cause this result.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6882/15/318
Sun-Fa Chuang1†, Chun-Chuan Shih2†, Chun-Chieh Yeh34, Hsin-Long Lane2, Chin-Chuan Tsai25, Ta-Liang Chen678, Jaung-Geng Lin9, Tainsong Chen1† and Chien-Chang Liao6789*†
Author Affiliations
1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, 1 University Road, Tainan City 701, Taiwan
2 School of Chinese Medicine for Post-Baccalaureate, I-Shou University, 8 Yida Road, Kaohsiung City 824, Taiwan
3 Department of Surgery, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
4 Department of Surgery, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
5 Department of Chinese Medicine, E-DA Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
6 Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Medical University Hospital, 252 Wuxing St., Taipei 110, Taiwan
7 Health Policy Research Center, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
8 School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
9 School of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, 91 Hsueh-Shih Road, Taichung 404, Taiwan
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BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015, 15:318  doi:10.1186/s12906-015-0828-8

Sun-Fa Chuang, Chun-Chuan Shih, Tainsong Chen and Chien-Chang Liao contributed equally to this work.
The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6882/15/318

Received:26 February 2015
Accepted:25 August 2015
Published:9 September 2015
© 2015 Chuang et al.

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Abstract

Background

Whether acupuncture protects stroke patients from acute myocardial infarction (AMI) has not been studied previously. The purpose of this study was to investigate the risk of AMI among stroke patients receiving acupuncture treatment.

Methods

Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Research Database was used to conduct a retrospective cohort study of 23475 stroke patients aged 40–79 years receiving acupuncture treatment and 46950 propensity score-matched stroke patients not receiving acupuncture treatment who served as controls from 2000 to 2004. Both stroke cohorts were followed until the end of 2009 and were adjusted for immortal time to measure the incidence and adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) with 95 % confidence intervals (CIs) for new-onset AMI in multivariate Cox proportional hazard models.

Results

Stroke patients who received acupuncture treatment (9.2 per 1000 person-years) exhibited a lower incidence of AMI compared with those who did not receive acupuncture treatment (10.8 per 1000 person-years), with an HR of 0.86 (95 % CI, 0.80–0.93) after adjusting for age, sex, low income, coexisting medical conditions and medications. The relationship between acupuncture treatment and AMI risk was investigated in female stroke patients (HR, 0.85; 95 % CI, 0.76–0.95), male stroke patients (HR, 0.87; 95 % CI, 0.80–0.95), patients from 50 to 59 years of age (HR, 0.75; 95 % CI, 0.63–0.90), patients from 60 to 69 years of age (HR, 0.85; 95 % CI, 0.75–0.95), patients suffering from ischemic stroke (HR, 0.87; 95 % CI, 0.79–0.95), and patients suffering from hemorrhagic stroke (HR, 0.62; 95 % CI, 0.44–0.88).

Conclusions

We raised the possibility that acupuncture may be effective in lowering the risk of AMI in stroke patients aged 50–69 in this study, which was limited by a lack of information regarding stroke severity and acupuncture points. Our results suggest that prospective randomized trials are needed to establish the efficacy of acupuncture in preventing AMI
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