Deans' stroke musings: Bright light therapy for sleep disturbance in dementia is most effective for mild to moderate Alzheimer's type dementia: A case series

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.

Saturday, February 4, 2017

Bright light therapy for sleep disturbance in dementia is most effective for mild to moderate Alzheimer's type dementia: A case series

Maybe you want your doctor to try this as possible prevention for your likely case of dementia post-stroke.

1. A documented 33% dementia chance post-stroke from an Australian study? May 2012.

2. Then this study came out and seems to have a range from 17-66%. December 2013.

3. A 20% chance in this research. July 2013.

4. A 2-fold increase in dementia risk in this study Jan. 2017

Bright light therapy for sleep disturbance in dementia is most effective for mild to moderate Alzheimer's type dementia: A case series

Psychogeriatrics, 01/30/2017Sekiguchi H, et al.

On the basis of the available data, the authors conclude that bright light therapy (BLT) could be an effective strategy for treating dementia patients, depending on their type and grade of their dementia.

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