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, June 26, 2016

Return to Work After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Nationwide Follow-up Study

Where is the exact same research for stroke? Our fucking failures of stroke associations  should have a database of objectively described brain damage mapped to those who went back to work, what protocols they performed to recover, and the work they went back to. Your doctor and stroke hospital do not see enough patients to do this on their own. Not that they would even think about doing this.

Return to Work After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Nationwide Follow-up Study

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Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation:
doi: 10.1097/HTR.0000000000000239
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Return to Work After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Nationwide Follow-up Study.

Odgaard, Lene MHS; Johnsen, Søren Paaske PhD; Pedersen, Asger Roer PhD; Nielsen, Jørgen Feldbæk DMSci

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Abstract

Objective: To determine return to work (RTW) after severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and to compare long-term labor market attachment (LMA) with the general population.
Participants: All persons aged 18 to 64 years who received highly specialized neurorehabilitation after severe TBI between 2004 and 2012 (n = 637) were matched to general population controls on age, sex, preinjury employment status, educational level, and residence (n = 2497).
Design: Nationwide follow-up study using weekly records on public assistance benefits.
Main Measures: Both RTW and LMA were defined as having no public assistance benefits except education grants/leave. Stable LMA was defined as weeks with LMA of 75% or more. LMA among persons with severe TBI and controls was compared using multivariable conditional logistic regression.
Results: RTW mainly occurred within first 2 years after severe TBI, with 30% of the people attempting RTW and 16% achieving stable LMA within 2 years. The prevalence of people with LMA decreased to 11% from 21/2 years to 5 years postinjury. Adjusted odds ratios were 0.01 for LMA up to 2 years postinjury and 0.05 for stable LMA for persons with severe TBI compared with the general population.
Conclusion: Both RTW and long-term LMA after severe TBI were low in Denmark when compared with the general population and other countries.
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