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.

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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, April 4, 2016

Exercise May Stave Off Cognitive Decline by 10 Years

You will need this since the stroke likely took years from your cognition.
http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/news/2016/03/exercise-may-stave-cognitive-decline-10-years?et_cid=5195199&et_rid=648870051&type=cta&et_cid=5195199&et_rid=648870051&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.biosciencetechnology.com%2fnews%2f2016%2f03%2fexercise-may-stave-cognitive-decline-10-years%
Higher levels of exercise in older adults has been linked to a slow in mental decline, at a rate equal to 10 years of aging, compared to those who reported little to no exercise.
In a recent population-based observational study, led by Clinton B. Wright, M.D., of the University of Miami, researchers found that getting regular exercise of moderate to high intensity could be protective and help maintain cognitive abilities longer.
Wright told Bioscience Technology¸ that the biggest takeaway from the study, which looked at data on 876 people enrolled in the Northern Manhattan Study, was that “older adults who reported doing more leisure time physical activity had less decline in memory and thinking abilities than those who reported less activity.”
Participants, with an average age of 63 years at the beginning of the study, were surveyed on the length and duration of their physical activity in the two weeks prior to that date.  Then, about seven years later, at an average age of 71, participants were giving thinking and memory tests and a brain MRI scan. Cognitive tests were administered once again five years after that.
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A large majority, 90 percent, were placed in the low activity group who reported no exercise, or light activity such as walking and yoga.  The remaining 10 percent were placed in the high activity group after reporting moderate to high intensity exercise, such as running, aerobics or calisthenics.
After analyzing results of people who did not show any signs of cognitive difficulties at the beginning of the study, Wright’s team found that those who were in the low activity group performed worse on simple tasks and memory tests, such as remembering words from a list, than those in the high activity group.  The difference, which remained after adjusting for factors such as smoking, alcohol use, and high blood pressure, was equal to 10 years of aging, according to the researchers.
The findings were reported March 23, online in Neurology.
Wright said that the study does not conclude that low-level activities are not beneficial to older adults, because there was no group below the low level activity group to compare participants to.
Wright also noted limitations of the study, including self-reporting and being an observational study, meaning people were not assigned to particular groups to test the effects of physical activity.
Designing clinical trials to examine the effects of exercise on memory and thinking are the next step in this research Wright said.  “We and others can also look at potential mediators such as inflammation and growth factors that may be involved.”
This study was funded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke by a grant to the University of Miami and Columbia University.

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