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.

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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, April 12, 2017

Exercise Makes You Grow New Brain Cells–But Only The Right Kind Of Exercise If you want to make yourself smarter, go for a run

You'll have to insist that your doctor and therapists have a protocol to get you running again. I could easily start running again if my spasticity of my leg/foot/ankle was stopped.
https://www.fastcompany.com/3056872/exercise-makes-you-grow-new-brain-cells-but-only-the-right-kind-of-exercise?

Which makes you smarter: running or lifting weights? Meathead jokes aside, there’s new evidence that moderate aerobic exercise helps increase new brain cells, while strength training may not be much healthier for the brain than sitting on the couch.
In a new study, researchers at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland gave rats three different workout programs–running, weight lifting, and high-intensity interval training–to see if some types of exercise are better for the brain.
“I think the training regimes were quite close to what humans might do,” says study lead Miriam Nokia. The rats doing endurance training, for example, ran on a treadmill three times a week for half an hour. The rat version of weight lifting was a little different–tiny weights were tied to the rats’ tails while they climbed up a ladder–but like weight-lifting humans, the rats were noticeably buffer after eight weeks of working out.


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But the weight-lifters didn’t show signs of neurogenesis, or new brain cells. By the end of the study, the rats that jogged on a treadmill had significantly more new brain cells than those that lifted weights or were sedentary. They also fared much better than those that did high-intensity training–spurts of sprinting, then jogging, repeated for 20 minutes.
“[High intensity training] is in nature more stressful which could have dampened its effects on adult hippocampal neurogenesis,” says Nokia. “Stress is in general considered to decrease adult neurogenesis.” On the other hand, the rats on the treadmills were prodded on by tiny shocks–also stressful–and the weight-training rats weren’t, so stress alone doesn’t explain the differences. Nokia also points out that mild stress may actually increase the number of new brain cells.


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The study also found that some rats were more likely to benefit from running than others. Those who were selectively bred for their ability to get fit–and who jogged on their running wheels voluntarily, often for miles every day–ended up also seeing the biggest increase in neurogenesis.
None of this proves that the same thing would happen in humans. But a 2014 study of elderly women suggested something similar: aerobic exercise made the part of the brain responsible for memory grow, and weight lifting didn’t have any effect.
Weight lifting might still have benefits for the brain, but likely not new brain cells. “The effects of anaerobic training on the brain are something I definitely wish to study more,” says Nokia.

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