Deans' stroke musings: Andrew Marr's stroke treatment in America results in subtle changes but not 'dramatic improvements'

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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.

Sunday, October 22, 2017

Andrew Marr's stroke treatment in America results in subtle changes but not 'dramatic improvements'

There is NO clinical evidence that etanercept does anything at all. But wonderful anecdotal comments and edited videos make it seem like magic.
29 posts on etanercept for your edification.
Dr. Tobinick(21 posts) seems to have never even entertained trying to get his uses of etanercept tested in a clinical trial.
Google 'institute of neurological recovery scam' before going down this route.
It is magic, money flows from your pocket to this without any proven benefits to you.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/16/andrew-marrs-stroke-treatment-america-results-subtle-changes/?

Broadcaster Andrew Marr said a new treatment he received after suffering a stroke has resulted in subtle changes, but not the "dramatic improvements" he hoped for.
The BBC presenter, who had a stroke almost four years ago and remains semi-paralysed on his left side, travelled to Florida to try a new anti-inflammatory drug called Etanercept.

Marr had described the treatment - which involved having the drug injected into the spinal fluid while hanging upside down - as a Christmas present to himself. He said he will now work to build on the small changes he has seen.

Marr told the Press Association in a statement: "Although I haven't seen the dramatic improvements that I hoped for, there have been subtle and useful changes which I am going to work on through physiotherapy and exercise over the coming months.
"It hasn't been 'pick up thy bed and walk' but it hasn't been nothing, either. We will tell the fuller story in a BBC documentary scheduled to be broadcast in January."
Marr's stroke in January 2013 left him spending two months in hospital and undergoing extensive physiotherapy to help him walk.

Andrew Marr interviews Vladimir Putin 02:18

In a piece for the Spectator recently, talking about the new treatment, he detailed some of the effects of stroke he has to deal with.
He wrote: "I'm not complaining too much: I can work, drink, see friends, paint, listen to music and irritate my children like before. I'm a lucky fellow.
"But I can't run or cycle or swim, and I walk very unsteadily and slowly. I drop things and take ages to get dressed."