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.

Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Placenta cells could heal stroke damage, says world-first Australian study

Have your doctor report back to you when this is proven out and available in their stroke hospital. 
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/placenta-cells-could-heal-stroke-damage-says-world-first-australian-study
An Australian study has found injections of placenta cells can reduce brain injury and aid recovery in stroke victims.
Giving stroke victims an injection of placenta cells could help heal the brain, according to Australian researchers who are preparing human trials of the treatment.
The seven-year research project, led by La Trobe University in Victoria, has already proved promising in mice, where injections of human amnion epithelial cells - found in the inner lining of placenta and discarded after birth - reduced brain injury and aided recovery.
While most beneficial within 90 minutes of a stroke, the experimental therapy was still successful up to three days after a stroke.
Professor Chris Sobey worked on the study.
Professor Chris Sobey worked on the study.
SBS
"If we administered... 90 minutes after stroke, the cells quickly homed in on the affected area of the brain, greatly reducing inflammation and nerve cell death," lead researcher Professor Chris Sobey said.
"But what is particularly exciting about these new findings is that when the amniotic cells were administered as late as one or three days after stroke, there was accelerated healing and long-term functional recovery was still greatly improved."
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Someone has a stroke every nine minutes in Australia - making it one of the country's biggest killers and the leading cause of disability.
The new study, published in medical journal Stroke, could potentially add to currently limited stroke treatments in Australia.
Only about 13 per cent of patients receive clot-busting drugs because they need to be given within 4.5 hours of a stroke occurring.
Stroke victim Karen Bayley told SBS News she credited early treatment with saving her life.
"My stroke caused total paralysis in the left side of my body, so the initial treatment resolved the paralysis in my face and in my leg, but I underwent six months of therapy to regain functioning in my arm."
Stroke victim Karen Bayley.
Stroke victim Karen Bayley.
SBS
"(The new study is) very exciting for anybody who's recently impacted or will be impacted in the future by stroke."
A Monash Health team, led by director of neurology Dr Henry Ma, will conduct the first human trial of the therapy on acute stroke patients in Victoria this year.
"The trial will be a great opportunity to translate this exciting research finding into clinical practice which may benefit stroke patients in the future," Dr Ma said.
Source: AAP - SBS

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