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, November 21, 2017

Veterans Can Now Access Virtual Cognitive and Speech Therapy Through the Constant Therapy Mobile App 24/7

Helpful but they don't tell you the efficacy of the intervention. 
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/veterans-can-now-access-virtual-cognitive-and-speech-therapy-through-the-constant-therapy-mobile-app-247-300559837.html
The Learning Corp's award-winning app gives veterans suffering from brain injury access to critical rehabilitation anytime, anywhere

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The Learning Corp
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NEWTON, Mass., Nov. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The Learning Corp (TLC) today announced that veterans eligible for speech or cognitive therapy through the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) are eligible to access the Constant Therapy mobile app at no cost to them. Constant Therapy is a tool for use by clinicians with patients to help with recovery from speech, language and cognitive disorders. As such it enables veterans with long-term disabilities due to traumatic brain injury, stroke or aphasia to obtain critical rehabilitation from the comfort of their home.
Traumatic brain injuries affect about 2.5 million Americans annually. Active duty and reserve service members are at increased risk for brain injury due to exposure to blasts during deployment. Stroke is another major health issue affecting veterans; the VA estimates that 15,000 veterans receive VA care for stroke each year, and there are more than 750,000 strokes annually among the general population.
Due to the chronic nature of these injuries, veterans require access to long-term rehabilitation. With the Constant Therapy app, available for download on iPhone, iPad, Android and Amazon Fire devices, patients perform evidence-based therapy exercises to motivate them and help with necessary skills such as speaking, reading, writing, math, memory and attention.
"Constant Therapy has been invaluable for my veteran who suffered a stroke 45 days ago. He works at home one to two hours a day on the tasks assigned. As a patient with severe apraxia, this has been a difference-maker. He's making major gains," said Debra Gleeson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP at the Battle Creek VA Medical Center.
"More than 50 million exercises have been performed by Constant Therapy users to date and with insights drawn from this data, we are uniquely able to personalize the therapy experience for each user," said Veera Anantha, Ph.D., co-founder and chief operations officer, The Learning Corp. "It is with great pride that, in time for National Veterans Month, we are able to extend this high-value rehabilitation to the VA's members and help better serve those men and women in need of more convenient access to evidenced-based care."
The Learning Corp now accepts payments directly from the VA, ensuring that Veterans who receive speech and language therapy through the VA can download Constant Therapy and subscribe at no cost to them.
To learn more, veterans should ask their VA clinician or doctor to contact The Learning Corp at 1-888-233-1399 or constanttherapy.com/contact-us and ask about the VA NO COST Program.

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