Deans' stroke musings: National Stroke Association

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.

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

National Stroke Association - Think F.A.S.T. Games

And I guess the point being that getting fast to a stroke hospital gets you a 12% chance of full recovery from using tPA. Press releases to a failure of an intervention. This tPA intervention did save my life since I got it in 90 minutes, blowing out the clot, but did not stop the neuronal cascade of death. See my MRI scan of the resulting dead spot in my brain at the bottom of this blog. I could be completely recovered by now if that cascade of death had been stopped, leaving me with only a small manageable dead spot. And this problem has been known for 20 years with no attempt at fixing that tPA problem. Incompetence in action, with no consequences to the incompetent persons involved.

Think FAST Games

When you’re gathered with your family this holiday season, educate your loved ones using the simple acronym FAST that helps you remember the signs of stroke. Better yet, play our Think FAST Games where you can learn all about the FAST system in our fun games. Study the FAST system and then play four games, challenging each other to see who scores the highest.

To get you started, here’s a review of what FAST means:

F = FACE: Ask the person to smile. Does one side of the face droop?
A = ARMS: Ask the person to raise both arms. Does one arm drift downward?
S = SPEECH: Ask the person to repeat a simple phrase. Is their speech slurred?
T = TIME: If you observe any of these signs, call 9-1-1 immediately.

Knowing the early signs of stroke can save a loved one’s life. Talk about it this holiday season.

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