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, April 12, 2016

Driving challenges

Tonight I drove 1 hour 6 minutes to Grand Rapids, MI to see the Banff Mountain Film Festival. Great films. Drove on the interstate on cruise control at 71mph with the left arm at the 12:30 position. It is there because that position straightens out the arm a little more and is easier to conteract the tendency to drift left. For the first time drove that way back at night also. I'm not sure how many hours of driving I will need to do to feel completely confident about those abilities. The fingers are not yet gripping the wheel and I still have to lift the left arm with the right and uncurl the fingers to get it positioned. But at least I can now do this while the car is moving.  Our therapists should know the answers to these simple questions. I'm sure driving is requested by almost all survivors so there should be protocols about how to recover driving abilities.

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