Deans' stroke musings: Bowel dysfunction in patients with brain damage resulting from stroke and traumatic brain injury: a retrospective study of a case series

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.

Monday, January 6, 2020

Bowel dysfunction in patients with brain damage resulting from stroke and traumatic brain injury: a retrospective study of a case series

Has your doctor done anything with this in the past 7 years? Do you prefer your incompetence being NOT KNOWING. Or NOT DOING?

Bowel dysfunction in patients with brain damage resulting from stroke and traumatic brain injury: a retrospective study of a case series Oct./Dec. 2012

Cinthia Carlos Dourado^I; Tânia Mara Nascimento de Miranda Engler^II; Sandro Barbosa de Oliveira^III
^INurse. Neurologic Rehabilitation Program, SARAH Rehabilitation Hospital Network. Federal District, Brazil. E-mail: cinthiadourado@gmail.com
^IIPh.D. candidate, Graduate Program in Health Sciences, Universidade de Brasília (UnB). Nurse. Neurologic Rehabilitation Program, SARAH Rehabilitation Hospital Network. Federal District, Brazil. E-mail: tania0877@hotmail.com
^IIIStatistician. National Quality Control Center, SARAH Rehabilitation Hospital Network. Federal District, Brazil. E-mail: sndr@terra.com.br
Correspondence

ABSTRACT
Bowel dysfunction is a common complaint among patients with brain damage due to stroke and traumatic brain injury. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of bowel dysfunction (anal incontinence and intestinal constipation) in patients with brain damage due to stroke and traumatic brain injury admitted for rehabilitation. This is a retrospective case series study, based on the analysis of data from 138 charts of patients admitted in the first half of 2009. The prevalence of bowel dysfunction was 41%, with 33 (24%) cases of anal incontinence and 37 (27%) cases of intestinal constipation. Motor impairment, mobility aid, changes in memory and communication were associated with the presence of anal incontinence. The prevalence of bowel dysfunction is high in this population. Early identification of the symptoms and its related factors promoting bowel retraining, may help to improve the quality of life of patients with bowel dysfunction.