Deans' stroke musings: Add your voice. Be a stroke hero

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.

Thursday, May 26, 2016

Add your voice. Be a stroke hero

If you really want to be a stroke hero you will tell those fucking idiots at the American Stroke Association that they aren't even working on the correct problems in stroke. But up to you if you don't care about your children and grandchildrens' recovery after stroke. Yes, I know I'm being an asshole but there is no way to contact anyone in charge at the ASA to discuss stroke strategy.
Little people have little ideas, big people have BHAGs(Big Hairy Audacious Goals), mine is to eliminate all need for stroke associations because standard recovery from stroke is 100%. If that's not your goal, you aren't even worth talking to.
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STROKE HERO. Super heroes fly. Stroke heroes petition Congress.

Let your powers of persuasion help save more lives. Take action.

Dear Dean,

I'm a stroke survivor for one simple reason. I was able to beat the clock—thanks to telestroke technology.

Unfortunately, Medicare only covers a telestroke consultation if the patient is in a rural hospital. With almost 94% of strokes occurring in urban or suburban areas, many Medicare patients don't have access to this valuable technology.
Things need to change fast.

That's why I'm asking you to join me and tell Congress to expand Medicare coverage for telestroke in all medical centers.

Telestroke technology connects stroke patients with off-site stroke experts in real time. So when I first suffered my stroke, I was rushed to the nearest hospital, which was equipped with telestroke technology. The time saved is what made my recovery period shorter and my quality of life much better.

Join other stroke heroes and tell Members of Congress to co-sponsor the FAST ACT without delay. The FAST (Furthering Access to Stroke Telemedicine) Act will expand telestroke coverage to urban and suburban centers.

Imagine how many more lives we can save, just by saving time.