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, June 13, 2019

Daily Blue Light Therapy Reduces Post-Concussion Symptoms After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Your doctor has some analysis to do. Is daytime sleepiness better treated with this or sex

Your doctor is incompetent if these earlier ones on blue light were not put into stroke protocols for your use. Go ahead and ask your doctor why they are so incompetent. 

Laziness? Incompetence? Or just don't care? No leadership? No strategy? Not my job?  The board of directors didn't tell them that totally solving stroke was their job, not just lazily relying on the status quo?

After Stroke, 'Blue' Light May Help Beat the Blues  February 2017 

 

Blue light reduces organ injury from ischemia and reperfusion  December 2016

 

Could blue light reduce blood pressure?  November 2018 

The latest here:

Daily Blue Light Therapy Reduces Post-Concussion Symptoms After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

By Matt Silver

SAN ANTONIO, Tex -- June 11, 2019 -- Daily blue light therapy effectively reduces daytime sleepiness and post-concussion symptoms related to mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), according to a study presented here at SLEEP 2019, the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS).

“An estimated 30% to 80% of individuals report long-term sleep disruption following a mild traumatic brain injury,” said Adam Raikes, MD, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. “Given the critical role of high-quality sleep on optimal cognitive, emotional, sport, and physical performance, ameliorating these adverse effects is essential.”

For the current randomised study, the researchers compared the effects of daily blue light therapy with those of amber light therapy in 27 individuals who have suffered mild TBI, hypothesising that subjects receiving blue light would self-report improved sleep outcomes.

All subjects underwent 6 weeks of daily light treatment for 30 minutes, with each treatment taking place in the morning, lasting 30 minutes, and consisting of direct exposure via light box.

Daytime sleepiness was measured using the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) and post-concussion symptoms were measured using the Rivermead Post-concussion Symptom Questionnaire (RPCSQ).

Individuals in the blue light group showed significantly improved daytime sleepiness (P = .025) and somatic (P = .053), and cognitive symptoms (P = .082) than those in the amber light group.

Bivariate correlations indicated that improvements in ESS scores were significantly associated with improvements in somatic symptoms (P = .014).

“These improvements are likely to have significant positive effects on individuals’ daytime functioning (cognitive, physical, emotional, and sport) and overall quality of life,” the authors concluded.

They noted that more research is needed to investigate the causality of these findings and the neurological mechanisms underpinning them.

[Presentation title: Daily Blue Light Therapy Reduces Daytime Sleepiness and Post-Concussion Symptoms After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. Abstract 0935]

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