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, April 11, 2018

Cleveland Clinic researchers receive $2.5 million for stroke research

I do wish we had a stroke strategy that correctly prioritizes the types of stroke research that would help stroke survivors the most. It would be much more useful to have less dead and damaged brain cells if you stopped the 5 causes of the neuronal cascade of death in the first week. Then rehab interventions like this would have a much better chance of succeeding. 
http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20180409/news/157666/cleveland-clinic-researchers-receive-25-million-stroke-research
A team of researchers at Cleveland Clinic has been awarded a $2.5 million grant to advance work using deep brain stimulation to improve post-stroke motor rehabilitation, according to a news release.
Dr. Andre Machado and Ken Baker are co-primary investigators on the grant, which comes from the National Institutes of Health.
The grant will operate in parallel with their ongoing clinical trial that explores the use of deep brain stimulation to restore motor function in patients who have suffered a stroke.
"If this research succeeds, it offers new hope for patients who have suffered a stroke and have remained paralyzed," Machado, chair of the Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute, said in a prepared statement. "It is an opportunity to allow our patients to rehabilitate and gain function and therefore gain independence."
The researcher team hopes to learn how the type of stroke influences the treatment's benefits. Understanding these dynamics better could help identify biomarkers that indicate which patients are good candidates for deep brain stimulation and may most benefit from the therapy, according to the release. The researchers also hope to learn how the timing of treatment onset and age may influence outcomes.
"This award will help us further refine our work in using cerebellar stimulation — DBS — to enhance motor rehabilitation," Baker, of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute, said in a prepared statement. "There currently are no effective therapeutic treatments for the hundreds of thousands of individuals who live with chronic motor disabilities following stroke. We are hopeful this will reduce the burden of stroke on patients, their families and society."

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