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, January 7, 2019

Long-term sitting affects vascular health

What EXACTLY is your responsible doctor doing to assure your time in the hospital is not spent sitting or lying in bed? Studies have shown stroke survivors spent vast amounts of time not doing anything. Of course your doctor can deflect this argument since the research was in healthy subjects. If s/he does that deflection you need to demand a competent doctor. 

Long-term sitting affects vascular health


Long bouts of uninterrupted sitting in relatively healthy patients negatively impacted markers of peripheral and central vascular health, according to a study published in The American Journal of Cardiology.
Daniel P. Credeur, PhD, assistant professor at The University of Southern Mississippi School of Kinesiology in Hattiesburg, and colleagues analyzed data from 20 patients (mean age, 26 years; 7 women; mean BMI = 30 kg/m2) free from any metabolic, CV or neurological diseases. Patients were also nonsmokers, not pregnant and were asymptomatic, as shown by a resting BP below 140 mm Hg systolic/90 mm Hg diastolic.
After completing several assessments and measurements, patients rested for 15 minutes before they sat in a chair for 3 hours. During this time, patients were allowed to perform standard tasks. Tasks such as listening to heavy music and moving their legs were not permitted during the 3 hours.
CV measures were taken at 10 minutes and at every hour. Assessments after 3 hours were also performed, and patients were given a triaxial accelerometer to determine physical activity status over a 7-day period.
After patients sat for 3 hours, there was a significant increase in aortic pulse wave velocity (5.7 m/s to 6.1 m/s; P = .009) and a decrease in augmentation index (13% to 3%; P < .001).
Reflection magnitude did not significantly change during sitting (P = .13).
Decreases were also seen in flow-mediated dilation (0.5 mm to 0.3 mm; P = .014) and microvascular area under the curve (2,194 to 1,157; P = .003). Low-flow mediated constriction was unaffected during sitting (P = .85).
“Our data support the view that a single bout of prolonged, uninterrupted sitting may serve as a precursor for initiating the deleterious cardiovascular health response associated with long-term sedentarism,” Credeur and colleagues wrote. – by Darlene Dobkowski

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