Deans' stroke musings: “Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney.” Vincent van Gogh

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.

Monday, January 4, 2016

“Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney.” Vincent van Gogh

There are times I feel the same despair after doing this for six years and still seeing no objective results of my rantings. Gazillions of neurons are still dying every single minute and I haven't helped a single one stay alive to paint that next great painting.

1 comment:

Geoff.WenkerJanuary 5, 2016 at 4:41 PM
Dean,
Keep that fire burning!
I find comfort in your daily email that if something helpful comes along, I am confident I will know about it.
Unfortunately, the medical community moves very slowly, so who knows when effective stroke prevention, treatment, & rehab will be available & usable by patients, much less paid for by insurance.
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