Deans' stroke musings: Praise for stroke rehab group supporting patients at King's Mill Hospital

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.

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Praise for stroke rehab group supporting patients at King's Mill Hospital

This is openly acknowledging that this hospital is a complete failure at getting patients 100% recovered! 'Hope' is just pushing the tyranny of low expectations. YOU need to have this hospital completely enabled with new staff. Why is your board of directors so incompetent as to allow such failure?

Praise for stroke rehab group supporting patients at King's Mill Hospital

Stroke patients at King’s Mill Hospital can now get extra support in their recovery thanks to a support group set up in the Sutton site.

The patient experience group has been set up by staff from the ward and previous stroke patients to help provide hope to both stroke survivors and their families.

Members of the stroke group meet at King's Mill Hospital.

The first meeting was held in October which was followed by the second group, held at the end of November. Both groups have been very successful and so it has been decided to now run them on a regular basis.

It has been supported by two previous patients and stroke survivors, Alex Winfield and Adam Lambert.

Alex, 31, who had a stroke aged just 30, said: “I think the group is a really good idea, I wish there had been something like this when I first had my stroke.
“It’s really good for patients to talk to other people that have experienced something similar and see that there is life after a stroke and it is possible to come through it.
“I would encourage anyone who has suffered a stroke to come along to the support group and have a chat, as it is really good to speak to people who have been in the same situation.”
The group meets on the third Wednesday of each month for patients on Ward 53 and their families, so that they can benefit whilst they are still patients on the ward.

Sara Gent, the occupational therapist who helped set up the group, said: “We have had some really good feedback from patients about the group.
“It can be really overwhelming for patients and their family, so I think it really helps for our current patients to listen and speak to others who have had a stroke, but who have progressed and have improved through therapy and support.
“I would also like to thank my colleagues and our volunteers for helping to set up the group and continuing to support the running of it.”