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.

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

New research highlights importance of stroke tests

What a joke, if you want to asses the level of damage you do PET and MRI scans to objectively diagnose the damage, not this questionnaire crap. Nothing here is repeatable/comparable in any clinical study.

New research highlights importance of stroke tests

A tool used to assess the level of damage done to the brain after a stroke is incredibly valuable, new research has suggested.

The findings, published in the journal Clinical Rehabilitation, looked at the efficiency of the ‘Patient-Reported Evaluation of Cognitive State’ (PRECiS), a 27-item questionnaire that aims to identify the cognitive problems of stroke survivors and is used to help measure progress that is made during rehabilitation.
Dr Emma Patchick, lead author of the study, said people who survive a stroke often have very different experiences of the impact of cognitive difficulties, depending on their life situation.
PRECiS was originally designed to help assess clinical trials but has since been influenced by people who have experienced a stroke and now acts as a therapeutic tool, which is effective and reliable, according to the research.
Dr Patchick said including patients' perspectives is important for understanding if a treatment has been effective, and PRECiS provides a way to measure this in cognitive rehabilitation.
When someone suffers a stroke, it's likely that they will experience problems with thinking and understanding, which can mean they have difficulties with their memory, attention, speech and many other areas of everyday life.
These cognitive impairments can also have an impact on a person's confidence and ability to recover from their trauma. However, there are limited tools that can help them in this area, but the new study suggests PRECiS could be an effective resource.
"It asks not just whether you have a cognitive problem, but whether that problem is bothering you and affecting your life," Dr Patchick explained.
She said the study shows some positive findings for how PRECiS can be used to measure these skills and indicates a number of "exciting future avenues to explore". However, she added that there is more research needed to better understand how it works for different people, as well as its clinical value.