Deans' stroke musings: Stem Cell Therapy for Traumatic Brain Injury Clinical Trial

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.

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Stem Cell Therapy for Traumatic Brain Injury Clinical Trial - UCSF

The University of California, San Francisco has posted information about a stem cell therapy clinical trial program for eligible individuals. I can't tell if this is a valid study at all since they don't mention measuring stem cells that survived.
http://tbistemcellstudy.ucsf.edu/?
A Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) occurs when a bump, blow, or jolt to the head causes injury to the brain. Falls, sports injuries, motor vehicle accidents, and violence are common causes of TBI.

We are seeking individuals who have had Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) to participate in current and future research studies for the treatment of TBI. We are currently seeking participants in a clinical trial of modified stem cell therapy for TBI called STEMTRA (STEM cell therapy for TRAumatic brain injury).

Interested participants will complete a questionnaire for a TBI research participant recruitment registry. The information in the registry will be used to identify potential participants for STEMTRA and future clinical research studies.

You may enroll in the participant recruitment registry for TBI research if you:

Are age 18 or older
Have suffered TBI
Have ongoing symptoms as a result of the TBI

Note: Other inclusion and exclusion criteria apply for each study.

The STEMTRA Study, a Phase II clinical trial, is designed to test the safety and efficacy of a modified stem cell therapy that is administered directly to the injured brain through a neurosurgical procedure. Participants will have approximately seven follow-up visits for additional examinations, questionnaires, video recordings, and brain scans over the following 12 months. (See About the Registry for additional details.)

We have developed the online eligibility questionnaire to help to see if you might be a candidate for this research study or for future research studies for TBI. The questionnaire includes detailed questions about your medical history and post-TBI symptoms and takes about 30 minutes to complete.
Eligibility Questionnaire Step 1: Overview

Information from individuals who complete this questionnaire will be placed in our Participant Recruitment Registry for TBI Research. We will use this information to begin the process of helping you to determine your potential eligibility for the STEMTRA Study and for future studies for TBI. We may also contact you to obtain additional information and to tell you more about future studies that you may qualify for.