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, May 21, 2016

10 years post stroke

Life is great. Lots of friends both here in Michigan and back in Minnesota and elsewhere. Completely on my own. Turned 60 this year, trying to figure out how long I have to work yet before I retire. Walking is still mainly swinging the left leg like a log, free-swinging lower leg does not seem like it will ever come back. I'm sure that eventually I will need to get my left knee rebuilt because it snaps and hyperextends. Left hand and fingers seem very unlikely to ever come back. The arm is showing signs of improvement ever since I started driving with the left arm. Biking is not really a priority right now. Running I'm not sure I will ever do again since the foot does not point straight due to spasticity.

I could easily recover whatever deficits I have in motor control if my spasticity was removed.
My cognition is as good as it ever was, I would match it against any stroke medical person in the world. It is only arrogance if you can't back up your knowledge.

10 years and I don't think stroke rehab has improved one iota mainly because no one in charge is listening to me. I bet you are screwed for the next 10 years also.
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