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.

Sunday, May 22, 2016

Could playing a dolphin in a video game help stroke patients recover?

This was originally written about on Oct. 2014 and I bet not a single stroke hospital has implemented this in their rehab department. That incompetence and complacency needs to be destroyed if stroke survivors are ever to get close to 100% recovery.
https://www.statnews.com/2016/03/25/after-a-stroke-reteaching-the-brain-by-gaming/
John Krakauer, a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University, has spent much of his career treating people with strokes. But he’s the first person to tell you that stroke rehab can be really lousy. Sometimes he likes to use the word medieval.
It’s not that stroke rehab involves bleeding a patient or prescribing the eye of a newt. The problem is that current treatments don’t take into account the latest research on what happens to the brain during and after a stroke. Rehab is often focused on just a few survival skills, like holding a spoon to eat. Many stroke victims only make partial recoveries and are never the same again.
Krakauer, the director of Johns Hopkins’s Center for the Study of Motor Learning and Brain Repair, wants to treat patients in a fundamentally different way: using video games to reteach the brain how to control the body.

I recently visited Krakauer and his colleagues at their lab in Baltimore to see what they were up to. Their research is the focus of the inaugural episode of “Science Happens,” a monthly video series in which I’ll be exploring labs and diving into the latest findings.
If you’d like to suggest a lab where existing research is going on for a future episode of Science Happens, please drop me a note.

1 comment:

  1. Dean,
    This is the same guy in a Ted Talk I found on YouTube, only longer and some more details.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjkgm6x3LlY

    A critical window for recovery after stroke | John Krakauer | TEDxJohnsHopkinsUniversity

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