Deans' stroke musings: What is the backlist in stroke?

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.

Sunday, September 2, 2018

What is the backlist in stroke?

With hundreds/thousands of stroke research each year it is almost impossible to keep up. But do we even know what needs to be solved from past research? I'd have to say NO, there is absolutely NO strategy in stroke anyplace. Because we don't even know what problem we are solving, ALL stroke research is just spinning its wheels, pretty much totally worthless.
Seth Godin discusses backlist here:

A good day for the backlist

“What’s new?”
That’s a fine approach to staying up to date on a situation or field where you are well-informed.(That's the first problem in stroke, NO ONE seems to be well informed. See all the cases where previous research was obviously not known about and not discussed as to how new research refuted old research.)After all, if you notice what’s new and incorporate it with what you know, you’ll remain well informed. This is the thesis behind Slack and even email.
The small town police chief has been to every house, met every resident. Hearing about the changes in town are enough for her to stay on top of her job.
The deluge of information being created in every corner of the world, though, means that it’s really unlikely that we’re actually well-informed. Knowing what’s new isn’t sufficient to keep us informed.
It’s possible that you’ve heard every single recorded performance of the Grateful Dead, or read all of Isaac Asimov or understand the nuances in the tax code. But it’s unlikely. And so, if you’re busy checking to see what’s new on the last Sunday of summer in the northern hemisphere, perhaps it makes sense to set the breaking news aside and take a look at the backlist instead.