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.

Saturday, November 30, 2019

Singing Showtunes Proven To Help Fight Off Dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease

Did your doctor setup singing  for stroke recovery? Why would you expect anything different from this research?  You need dementia prevention for these reasons:

Your chances of getting dementia.

1. A documented 33% dementia chance post-stroke from an Australian study?   May 2012.

2. Then this study came out and seems to have a range from 17-66%. December 2013.

3. A 20% chance in this research.   July 2013.

4. Dementia Risk Doubled in Patients Following Stroke September 2018 

5. Parkinson’s Disease May Have Link to Stroke March 2017

singing (7 posts to July 2013)

Singing Showtunes Proven To Help Fight Off Dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease


A new study finds that singing songs from classic musicals can boost the brain function of people with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, the Guardian reports.
Researchers working with elderly residents at a U.S. care facility found that those who sang their favorite showtunes showed a marked improvement in mental performance compared to other residents who merely listened.
Over the course of a four-month study, the assisted living patients were led through familiar songs from musicals such as Oklahoma, The Wizard of Oz, and Pinocchio during 50-minute sessions, but only half of the participants sung along.
While listening sparked activity in the temporal lobe on the right side of the brain, singing led to more activity in the left side.

The Sound of Music/20th Century Fox

Patients who had sung the showtunes scored higher on cognitive and drawing tests after the study, as well as on a satisfaction-with-life questionnaire. The most improvement was seen among sufferers of moderate to severe dementia.
“A lot of people have grown up singing songs and for a long time the memories are still there,” explains neuroscientist Jane Flinn. “When they start singing it can revive those memories.”
“Even when people are in the fairly advanced stages of dementia, when it is so advanced they are in a secure ward, singing sessions were still helpful,” Flinn continues. “The message is: Don’t give up on these people. You need to be doing things that engage them, and singing is cheap, easy, and engaging.”
“Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” “The Sound of Music,” and “When You Wish Upon a Star” were among the showtunes sung during the study.

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