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, November 10, 2019

Walking speed in stroke patients major determinant of recovery

We don't need another stupid recovery prediction. We need protocols that will increase our walking speed to what is necessary to rejoin the normal world. This absolute stupidity is all because we have NO STROKE LEADERSHIP ENFORCING RESEARCH THAT FOLLOWS THE DEFINED STROKE STRATEGY THAT GETS ALL SURVIVORS TO 100% RECOVERY.  Until this is understood and followed by our stroke medical professionals we will never get to 100% recovery.  My suggestion would be to fire everyone in stroke and start over.

Walking speed in stroke patients major determinant of recovery

A study done by Manchester Metropolitan University has discovered that the speed of a patient’s walk recovering from heart stroke is the best way to gauge if that person can get back to work. Researchers investigating the phenomenon were working with physiotherapists and patients in Wales. The project involves moving rehabilitation centers outdoors like Brecon Beacons to adopt new rehabilitation that are being developed to assist young patients of heart strokes.
Though the average age for stroke in UK is 72 for men and 78 for women but there has been a rise of 40 % stroke cases worldwide among people under 65 years within last decade say researchers. The study looked at 46 patients across Wales region that had a stroke before 65 years and observed that only 3 % of them were able to return to regular work. It also discovered that walking speed of a young adult was a key indicator of the individual’s ability to return back to work.
Researchers calculated that walking speed threshold of 0.93m/s or 3 feet per second was the ideal benchmark for returning back to work. They believe that this is the goal that therapists should set for rehabilitation of stroke patients. At Powys based Talybont-on-Usk, young stroke patients were taken on walks near Brecon Canal and Monmouthshire by research team. They wanted to find out if providing fresh air and setting walking goals can help stroke patients to start leading active lives again in the outdoors.
According to Manchester University’s Hanna Jarvis, stroke rehabilitation is usually focused on older people but young patients have specific needs and they want to live life as completely as possible. She said that most of her institute’s patients want to walk outside in the open air to gain confidence of walking in challenging environment. Dr. Jarvis stated that key aim for all young adults recovering from stroke is to return back to work and their research will help to understand how to help them return back to work.

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