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.

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Early Testing Can Predict Who Will Develop Upper Limb Spasticity After Stroke

I'm not sure what the hell good this is going to do since there is NO cure for spasticity. But we can have our stroke associations fail once again by not following up on this with research that will solve the spasticity problem. You have to ignore Dr. William M. Landau and his blasted stupid ideas on spasticity being good for you.

Spasticity After Stroke: Why Bother?


http://dgnews.docguide.com/early-testing-can-predict-who-will-develop-upper-limb-spasticity-after-stroke?
After a stroke, many patients suffer from spasticity of the arm that cause pain and impaired sensorimotor function. Now, there are ways of identifying such patients ahead of time so that they can obtain the earliest possible treatment.(Early identification will do no fucking good because there is no cure for spasticity and specialists will be able to do nothing.)

The findings are published in the journal Neurology.
Spasticity and related complications are relatively common after stroke, leading to poorer joint range of motion, greater pain, and less sensitivity in the arm 1 year later.
Arve Opheim, MD, Sahlgrenska Academy, and the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Swede, and colleagues found that the Fugl-Meyer assessment scale, a sensorimotor test performed during the first month after stroke, predicts with a fairly high degree of accuracy the patients who will develop spasticity within 1 year.
A total of 117 patients from Gothenburg with an average age of 67 years participated in the study. All of them had experienced poorer sensorimotor function in the arm 3 days after first-ever stroke. Upper limb sensorimotor function, spasticity and joint range of motion were monitored over the following year.
“Our findings suggest that systematic examinations of sensorimotor function can identify patients at risk of developing spasticity so that they can obtain early treatment,(There is no treatment!) said Dr. Opheim. “Opportunities for minimising pain, impaired function and other repercussions of spasticity will inevitably follow.”
SOURCE: University of Gothenburg

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