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, December 6, 2016

ReNeuron: Stem-cell therapy helped stroke patients

Impossible to tell if this really works, not enough information is given to analyze. If this truly worked they would have enough detail for researchers to duplicate the results. Because they don't and are a profit making company I think this is puffery.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/reneuron-stem-cell-therapy-helped-stroke-patients-2016-12-05
ReNeuron Group PLC (RENE.LN) said its stem-cell therapy aided the rehabilitation of patients who had been disabled by a stroke, adding to a small but growing body of evidence that such an approach holds promise.
U.K.-based ReNeuron said 15 patients in its 21-person study had a "clinically significant response" on at least one of the three commonly-used scales for assessing improvements following treatment.
Chief Executive Olav Hellebø said he was "particularly excited" that the treatment seemed to help patients perform daily tasks as this was the measure most prized by regulators in Europe and the U.S. The treatment, dubbed CTX, involves having stem cells injected into the brain near the site affected by the stroke.
The company said it would now apply to regulators in Europe and the U.S. to start a larger trial.
Stem-cell therapy, if proven successful, would constitute a rare breakthrough for stroke medicine. Blood-clot busting treatments given in the immediate aftermath of a stroke can minimize damage, but there are currently no other therapies available for stroke, according to Alessandra Granata, a researcher at the University of Cambridge.
Other groups are making progress. Earlier this year, a small clinical trials by researchers at Japanese biotech SanBio Co. suggested that stem-cell therapy had potential to aid stroke patients' rehabilitation. Another small study using SanBio's treatment, by researchers at Stanford University, had positive results.
Athersys Inc., a Cleveland, Ohio-based company using stem-cell therapy in stroke patients, plans to start enrolling patients into a phase-three clinical trial next year. Its therapy--given within 36 hours of a stroke--is aimed at preventing damage rather than rehabilitation.
-Write to Denise Rolande at denise.rolande@wsj.com
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