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.

Monday, March 19, 2018

Advances offer new hope for stroke survivors

Not really. Your doctor knows NOTHING about how much you will recover. And does nothing. Writing three prescriptions for E.T.(Evaluate and Treat) to your PT, OT and ST is doing nothing.
https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2018/03/19/new-hope-for-stroke-survivors/
Your best bet is just not to have a stroke in the first place. The next best option is to get to the hospital quickly — an option that is getting easier as doctors push the envelope on how long people can go without treatment and avoid serious brain damage. (Wrong, only a 12% chance to get fully recovered with tPA, lying by omission here.)
But patients like David Wilson, whose stroke went undetected for hours as he came out of thyroid surgery, need something more: hope in the face of the most daunting circumstances. Like the roughly 17 million Americans living with the aftermath of stroke, five years ago Wilson found himself unable to walk, read, speak or take care of his most basic needs. Fortunately, he's made a remarkable recovery — but not everyone does. Here's how one physician-scientist describes the situation in my latest piece for Stanford Medicine:
'The first thing that family members, or patients, if they can talk, ask the doctor is ‘Am I going to get better? How much better am I going to get?’' says Marion Buckwalter, MD, PhD, an associate professor of neurology and of neurosurgery and a member of Stanford Bio-X and the Stanford Neurosciences Institute. 'The answers right now are, No. 1, I can make an educated guess about how much better you’re going to get, but I might not be that good at it, and No. 2, maybe rehab will help you get better, but there’s not a lot of data to show that it actually helps.'
And there’s really not a lot else.'
Yet Buckwalter and others are hopeful — and they have good reason to be.
Researchers like Buckwalter and her colleague Maarten Lansberg, MD, PhD, an associate professor of neurology and neurological sciences, are working on how to prevent dementia in stroke survivors, nearly half of whom develop the condition in the first decade after a stroke. Others are working on new ways to deliver drugs right where they're needed in the brain, developing ways to stimulate the brain's recovery with magnetic fields, and building robotic devices tailored to help individual stroke patients walk more easily. With those and other developments on the horizon, the future for stroke survivors could be bright.
Illustration by Francesco Bongioni

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