Deans' stroke musings: CDC: Outpatient rehab rates suboptimal for stroke survivors

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.

Thursday, May 31, 2018

CDC: Outpatient rehab rates suboptimal for stroke survivors

Who gives a shit about participation rates? Survivors want to know about efficacy and results of stroke rehab. Maybe if results were better you would have higher participation. The goal is 100% recovery, start measuring that.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-05-cdc-outpatient-rehab-suboptimal-survivors.html

(HealthDay)—In 2015, 35.5 percent of adult stroke survivors used outpatient rehabilitation, up from 31.2 percent in 2013, according to research published in the May 25 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Carma Ayala, Ph.D., from the CDC in Atlanta, and colleagues analyzed 2013 and 2015 data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to update estimates of participation in outpatient rehabilitation after hospital discharge for adult stroke survivors.

The researchers found that outpatient rehabilitation use was 31.2 percent overall in 20 states and the District of Columbia in 2013 and 35.5 percent in four states in 2015. There were disparities in rehabilitation use based on sex, race, Hispanic origin, and education level.

"Although estimates of stroke outpatient rehab referral might be high, participation in stroke outpatient rehab remains suboptimal," the authors write. "Barriers to participation in stroke outpatient rehab are evident, but focused attention on system-level interventions that ensure participation is needed, especially among populations with lower levels of participation."