Deans' stroke musings: The innovative University of Canterbury Rose Centre for Stroke Recovery and Research, which has saved the New Zealand health sector millions with its stroke recovery protocols

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, January 10, 2018

The innovative University of Canterbury Rose Centre for Stroke Recovery and Research, which has saved the New Zealand health sector millions with its stroke recovery protocols

Then this should be rolled out worldwide by that great stroke association. But we don't have a stroke survivor led one so future stroke survivors are screwed.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1801/S00013/uc-researchers-save-health-sector-millions-with-stroke-rehab.htm
Press Release: University of Canterbury
UC researchers save health sector millions with innovative stroke rehab
The innovative University of Canterbury Rose Centre for Stroke Recovery and Research, which has saved the New Zealand health sector millions with its stroke recovery protocols, is hosting the 2nd International Stroke Rehab: From No-Tech to Go Tech Conference at the Christchurch Art Gallery, next month.
A recent Rose Centre research programme for stroke patients resulted in a reduction in pneumonia rates by 17%, with subsequent savings in healthcare costs of over $1.5 million in one year for the district health board.
The conference’s 30 January keynote session by UC’s Professor Maggie-Lee Huckabee, Director of the UC Rose Centre for Stroke Recovery and Research, titled: “PERC programme - Patients, Engineers, Researchers and Clinicians” from 1.15pm - 2.30pm at the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, will be free for the public to attend.
“This conference is a great way to highlight our unique PERC programme: Patients, Engineers, Researchers and Clinicians. We will have a special open session at the meeting inviting community, patients and clinicians to attend for free and give their feedback about development of bioengineering applications,” Professor Huckabee says.
The international, multidisciplinary, rehabilitation conference, which runs 29 - 31 January, features experts from the United States, Scotland, Australia and New Zealand, and panel discussions covering neuroscience and neural recovery, and multidisciplinary engagement in clinical stroke. A broad range of rehabilitation specialists, engineers, physiologists, clinicians, and researchers from 13 countries will attend. Peer-reviewed research presentations will include speech-language pathology, physiotherapy, and occupational therapy with an interest in cortical, corticobulbar or corticospinal rehabilitation.

The PERC programme
The PERC project aims to bring patients, engineers, researchers and clinicians together to develop rehabilitation technologies.
“Critically, the patient is the centre of this team and contributes valued input to research and development through onsite clinical services. Clinical services are available to patient partners, facilitating not only their individual recovery following stroke, but importantly enabling them to make substantial contributions to how rehabilitation is provided in the future,” Professor Huckabee says.
An ongoing series of focus groups with patients, engineers, researchers and clinicians highlight crucial limitations to rehabilitation success, with the PERC team using those discussions to develop technological solutions. The PERC project allows patients to contribute actively to not only their own rehabilitation but to the real potential for rehabilitation of others.