Deans' stroke musings: SBP and antihypertensive treatment in the acute phase after stroke and its impact on the risk of falling

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.

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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.

Saturday, April 6, 2019

SBP and antihypertensive treatment in the acute phase after stroke and its impact on the risk of falling

How many of these patients were even walking on their own in the first 10 days? I'm sure I wasn't allowed to walk without a gait belt and therapist assistance for weeks.

SBP and antihypertensive treatment in the acute phase after stroke and its impact on the risk of falling

Journal of Hypertension — Kjellberg S, et al. | April 01, 2019

In this sub-study of the Fall Study of Gothenburg, researchers studied 421 consecutive cases admitted to a stroke unit in order to describe systolic blood pressure development among patients in the acute phase after stroke. They also determined if intensified antihypertensive treatment during this phase is related to the risk of falling within the first 10 days. During the first 2 days post-acute stroke, systolic blood pressure underwent a spontaneous decline. This attenuation appeared to be present irrespective of stroke type, age, and use of antihypertensive treatment. Intensified antihypertensive treatment during the first 7 days following stroke was not related to falls.