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.

Friday, February 19, 2016

Many stroke survivors may develop seizures

What is your doctor doing to prevent these seizures from occurring? Or just waiting until they occur and then doing nothing?
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=160773&CultureCode=en
A substantial proportion of stroke survivors develop seizures in the years following their strokes, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2016.
Researchers studied information on hospitalizations and emergency department visits in California, Florida and New York from 2005 and 2013, identifying patients at the time of a first documented ischemic (clot-caused) or hemorrhagic (bleeding) stroke. For comparison, they also identified patients at the time of a first documented traumatic brain injury, since doctors have known for a long time that traumatic brain injury places patients at risk of seizures. Among the patients studied, 620,739 were diagnosed with stroke and 1,911,995 with traumatic brain injury.
Researchers found:
  • During an average follow-up of 3.4 years, 15.3 percent of patients with stroke had a seizure and 5.7 percent of patients with traumatic brain injury had a seizure.
  • Even taking into account other factors like age, the risk of seizure after stroke was significantly higher than the risk of seizure following traumatic brain injury.
  • Among the stroke subgroups studied, the long-term seizure risk was highest in patients who suffered intracerebral or subarachnoid hemorrhage, which occurs when a weakened vessel ruptures and bleeds into the brain.
Additional Resources:
  • Any available multimedia related to these tips are on the right column of this linkhttp://newsroom.heart.org/news/isc-16-thursday-news-tips?preview=677352c8f0b663885cee78c4e703957d.
  • ASA guidelines for the prevention of stroke in women
  • Hidden stroke risk factors for women
  • Healthy living after stroke
  • African-Americans and heart disease, stroke
  • Insomnia may significantly increase stroke risk
  • Join the AHA/ASA Support Network to talk with others going through similar journeys including depression after stroke. 
  • Follow news from the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2016 via Twitter: @HeartNews #ISC16.
http://newsroom.heart.org/news/isc-16-thursday-news-tips?preview=677352c8f0b663885cee78c4e703957d
  • Full bibliographic informationAbstract 109 - Alexander E. Merkler, Weill Cornell Medical Coll, New York, NY; Lauren E Dunn, Columbia Univ, New York, NY; Michael P Lerario, Weill Cornell Medical Coll, New York, NY; Nicholas A Morris, Columbia Univ, New York, NY; Gino Gialdini, Benjamin R Kummer, Shouri Lahiri, Babak B Navi, Hooman Kamel, Weill Cornell Medical Coll, New York, NY
    The Long-Term Risk of Seizures after Stroke
    American Heart Association’s International Stroke Conference 2016, February 16-19, 2016, Los Angeles, California.
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