Deans' stroke musings: Blood biomarkers are associated with brain function and blood flow following sport concussion

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.

Friday, March 23, 2018

Blood biomarkers are associated with brain function and blood flow following sport concussion

This should be quite applicable to stroke. But followup will never occur since we have NO stroke leadership and NO stroke strategy.
https://www.mdlinx.com/internal-medicine/medical-news-article/2018/03/23/peripheral-blood-biomarkers-mri-concussed/7508150/?

Journal of Neuroimmunology — | March 23, 2018

Di Battista AP, et al. - Given that combining blood biomarker analysis with advanced neuroimaging may help elucidate important secondary injury mechanisms and validate their continued utility in brain injury research, researchers herein assessed co-modulation between peripheral blood biomarkers and advanced functional brain imaging after sport-related concussion (SRC). In both recently concussed athletes and healthy athletes with a history of concussion, strong links between peripheral blood biomarkers and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) measures were found. The continued implementation of blood biomarkers as a tool to investigate brain injury, particularly in a multimodal framework, was supported. This work further support that human concussion is associated with inflammation, oxidative stress, and cellular damage, and that physiological perturbations may extend chronically beyond recovery.