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.

Friday, August 26, 2016

ASA recommends 24/7, intense multi-disciplinary treatment

Can't even find those guidelines on the ASA website so I could specify exactly how bad they are.
Fucking useless because guidelines don't tell exactly what to do. That is what protocols are for. 
http://www.wibw.com/content/news/New-stroke-rehab-guidelines-aim-to-get-patients-back-on-feet-391363771.html
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Already a heart attack survivor, Diana Houser had another scare in early August.
"I just knew I needed help," she said of the symptoms that brought her to the emergency room at Stormont-Vail in Topeka.
Diana suffered a mild stroke. In the weeks since, she's worked hard to get back on her feet, as an in-patient at Kansas Rehabilitation Hospital.
"I couldn't walk very well, couldn't speak very well," she said of her condition when she first checked in. "We started kind of from the beginning over it seemed to me."
The journey through in-patient therapy falls in line with the American Heart Assoc. and American Stroke Assoc.'s first-ever guidelines for adult stroke rehab. They recommend 24/7, intense multi-disciplinary treatment.
"What the rehabilitation phase focuses on is regaining that quality of life, addressing the specific impairments that they have and implementing a variety of techniques and technologies to optimize quality of life when they do get home," said Barry Muninger, marketing director for Kansas Rehab Hospital.
The approach includes a team of doctors and nurses, plus speech, occupational and physical therapies. Since it's in-patient, Diana meets with members of her team several times a day, rather than a few visits a week.
"It's just a wide variety (of activities), and so, with breaking it up into the different sessions throughout the day, we can focus on one task at a time versus trying to fit it all in," said Jamie Pfannenstiel, CPTA, a physical therapist who's been working with Diana.
The constant contact also allows staff to get a better overall picture of their patients' strengths and weaknesses.
"It provides us with a lot of opportunities to see different impairments with the patient that might not otherwise be detected," Muninger said.
Diana's made great strides and is almost ready to take the next step - going home to enjoy her husband and their family.
"I'm so grateful for what I've got and what I've regained," she said. "They helped me put it all together."
The new guidelines also recommend formal education for patients and families on preventing falls at home.

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