Deans' stroke musings: Improving rehabilitation after stroke

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, June 16, 2016

Improving rehabilitation after stroke - DR PENELOPE MCNULTY

Sorry doctor you are completely wrong. You are stuck in current thinking rather than what is possible with a little bit of research. The easiest way to improve rehabilitation is by stopping the neuronal cascade of death by these 5 causes. You are going down the route of improving the rehabilitation silo which currently only has a success rate of 10% full recovery. A great stroke association leader would be traveling the world making sure doctors don't make stupid statements like these. They would be promoting a defined strategy that would solve all the problems in stroke.

Improving rehabilitation after stroke - DR PENELOPE MCNULTY

Every year more than 60,000 Australians suffer a stroke and this number will only increase with the aging population the growing epidemics of obesity, physical inactivity and diabetes.

Because there is no cure for stroke, the only method to improve functional movement is through rehabilitation. But we need to understand how rehabilitation works, and which patients will benefit most.

We are studying patients who have weakness on one side of their body 3-12 months after a single stroke. We are comparing a new and promising strategy, Wii therapy, against the current best practice – constraint induced movement therapy in a randomised control trial.

Both therapies have been shown to improve upper limb functional movement after an intense 2 week program of rehabilitation.