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, April 8, 2016

USC receives $11 million grant to study stroke rehabilitation - South Carolina

It would be a hell of a lot easier to recover if instead research was done on stopping the neuronal cascade of death. Don't we have anyone in stroke with a modicum of brains? Incorrect research like this is a direct result of having NO strategy.
http://www.thestate.com/news/local/education/article68105642.html
The University of South Carolina will lead research into rehabilitating the communication skills of people who have had strokes, using one of the largest grants in school history.
The school was awarded $11.1 million from the National Institutes of Health for research that could aid recovery of hundreds of stroke patients. USC’s five-year study, starting next month, will include work with Johns Hopkins University, University of California Irvine and the Medical University of South Carolina.
About a third of the nation’s 800,000-a-year stroke sufferers have problems afterward with speaking, writing, reading and understanding language, disorders known as aphasia.
The disorders can leave stroke sufferers isolated in the community, said Julius Fridriksson, an USC public health professor who specializes in studying communication disorders after strokes.
“If you can’t communicate, your life is over as it used to be,” he said. “Most of these people lose their friends. They don’t want to go to church any more because there’s a stigma, because people associated it with intellectual problems. It’s not like their IQ has gone down.”
The study will try to determine the best treatment options and which stroke survivors are more likely to recover from communication disorders.
“(W)hen they know they have a stroke in a hospital or when they come for rehabilitation, they can find out, ‘What is my chance of getting better?’ ” said Fridriksson, who will help head the study.
“We know very little about why is it that some people recover very well, whereas others are left with lifelong disabilities.”
South Carolina has one of the nation’s highest instances of stroke, which occurs when blood flow to the brain is interrupted. Stroke rates also are rising among younger South Carolinians. Those under age 60, make up more than half of sufferers, Fridriksson said.
The causes of strokes are the same as heart attacks, including poor diet and smoking, he said.

Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/news/local/education/article68105642.html#storylink=cpy

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