Deans' stroke musings: New NeuroRecovery Research Center Opens At TIRR Memorial Hermann

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.

Saturday, February 6, 2016

New NeuroRecovery Research Center Opens At TIRR Memorial Hermann

For those close by you can ask what strategy they are following to choose the research to be done.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-neurorecovery-research-center-opens-at-tirr-memorial-hermann-300216030.html
A new research facility has opened on the campus of TIRR Memorial Hermann in Houston. The NeuroRecovery Research Center is part of a more than 42,000 square-foot building devoted to finding new, innovative ways to treat and rehabilitate patients.

In addition to providing the very highest level of rehabilitation services to patients, TIRR Memorial Hermann has long been a leader in cutting-edge research to treat people with a range of disabilities and complex conditions such as brain and spinal cord injury, stroke, multiple trauma, amputation and neurodegenerative diseases.

"The NeuroRecovery Research Center will house a number of labs conducting different studies and trials at the same time. The amount of collaboration that will go on among our teams is something that just can't be beat," says Dr. Gerard E. Francisco, chief medical officer at TIRR Memorial Hermann, director of NeuroRecovery Research Center and Professor and Chairman of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department (PM&R) at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).

The NeuroRecovery Research Center is a collaborative project among clinicians, scientists and engineers. Currently TIRR Memorial Hermann is one of just 3 sites in the United States taking part in a clinical trial aimed at assessing Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) during rehabilitation for improved upper limb motor function following a stroke.

TIRR Memorial Hermann is one of just a dozen sites in the United States participating in a unique stroke trial aimed at improving the quality of life for stroke survivors. Researchers use a non-invasive device capable of mapping the brain in order to deliver targeted magnetic stimulation that can suppress or enhance specific brain activity. Researchers are then able to determine the therapeutic effects of the navigated magnetic pulses for stroke rehabilitation.

"It was important that our research building be connected to TIRR Memorial Hermann and the bridge is symbolic of how we want to do research," says Dr. Francisco. "We do research to answer real world clinical questions so we can do better in our clinical care."

Carl Josehart, Sr. Vice President and CEO, TIRR Memorial Hermann concurred.

"This is an exciting time at TIRR as we take the research component of our rehabilitation services to the next level," said Josehart. "This state-of-the-art facility will provide researchers with the tools to pioneer new advances in rehabilitative medicine and get our patients back to the life they love."

To learn more about the NeuroRecovery Research Center and the clinical trials and studies currently underway visit tirr.memorialhermann.org or call 713-799-5000.

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