Deans' stroke musings: Lifestyle Factors May Affect How Long Individuals Live Free of Disability

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, September 2, 2017

Lifestyle Factors May Affect How Long Individuals Live Free of Disability

Well shit, I've been disabled now for 11 years and since I can see NO hope for solving my spasticity I will be disabled for the rest of my life, about 33 more years
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=178564&CultureCode=en

01 September 2017 Wiley

New research published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society indicates that a healthy lifestyle may help reduce the duration of an individual’s disabled period near the end of life.
In the community-based study of 5248 older adults recruited at an average age of 73 and followed for 25 years, the average number of disabled years was approximately 2.9 for men and 4.5 for women. Multiple lifestyle factors were significantly associated with years of life and years of able life. Greater distances walked and better-quality diet were associated with a relative compression of the disabled period. Obesity was associated with a relative expansion of the disabled period. Smoking was associated with a shorter life and fewer years of able life.
“We discovered that by improving lifestyle, we can postpone death, but even more so, we can postpone disability—in fact, it turns out that we’re compressing that disabled end-of-life period to a shorter timeframe,” said Dr. Anne Newman, senior author of the study. “This clearly demonstrates the value of investing in a healthy lifestyle.”
September is Healthy Aging Month.
http://wiley.newshq.businesswire.com/press-release/journal-american-geriatrics-society/lifestyle-factors-may-affect-how-long-individuals-

Full bibliographic informationMini E. Jacob, MD, PhD, Laura M. Yee, PhD, Paula H. Diehr, PhD, Alice M. Arnold, PhD, Stephen M. Thielke, MD, MPH, Paulo H. M. Chaves, MD, PhD, Liana Del Gobbo, PhD,
Calvin Hirsch, MD, David Siscovick, MD, MPH and Anne B. Newman, MD, MPH. Can a Healthy Lifestyle Compress the Disabled Period in Older Adults? Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. DOI: 10.1111/jgs.14314.