Deans' stroke musings: Stroke rehabilitation: long-term rehabilitation after stroke

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, October 6, 2015

Stroke rehabilitation: long-term rehabilitation after stroke - UK

It would be nice to have publicly available the Health and Care Excellence Clinical Guideline 162 on stroke rehabilitation. Just to see if anything there is specific and useful at all. But I'm sure you're going to be left in the dark because you're just a patient, you don't need to know the efficacy of stroke protocols.
http://www.clinmed.rcpjournal.org/content/15/5/461.short

Katharina Dworzynski, senior research fellow and guideline lead^A,
Gill Ritchie, associate director^B and
E Diane Playford, reader in neurological rehabilitation^C ⇑

+ Author Affiliations

^ARoyal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London, UK
^BNational Clinical Guideline Centre, Royal College of Physician, London, UK
^CUCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK

Address for correspondence: Dr D Playford, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK.Email: d.playford@ucl.ac.uk

ABSTRACT

Many stroke survivors, despite improvements in mortality and morbidity, remain dependent on others for everyday activities. People with stroke need access to effective specialist multidisciplinary rehabilitation services that are organised and integrated within the whole system of health and social care. They also commonly come under the care of generalists in various clinical contexts, including intercurrent illness. This Clinical Medicine Concise Guideline abstracts key recommendations from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Clinical Guideline 162 on stroke rehabilitation of particular relevance to clinicians in general medicine, to inform their front-line practice and promote liaison and collaboration with the specialist service.