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.

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

A Declaration On The Stroke ‘pandemic’

Oh God, more lazy crapola from the WSO(World Stroke Organization) not doing their job of actually solving stroke to 100% recovery. But instead promoting prevention because that way they don't have to do the hard work of solving stroke. They need to be destroyed and run by survivors, currently they are totally useless to survivors.  

A Declaration On The Stroke ‘pandemic’

 

PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF STROKE, DEMENTIA AND OTHER NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES ARE CRUCIAL IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19 AND PREPAREDNESS FOR FUTURE PUBLIC HEALTH THREATS.
“COVID-19 has spurred government interventions and individual behaviour change on a global scale that was previously inconceivable, yet we have effectively been living with a stroke pandemic for years,” says Professor of Epidemiology and Neurology, Valery Feigin, at Auckland University of Technology (AUT).
Professor Feigin, Director of the National Institute for Stroke and Applied Neurosciences at AUT, is a co-author of the World Stroke Organization (WSO) Declaration on Global Prevention of Stroke and Dementia, published in the latest edition of The Lancet Neurology.
It calls for urgent action from governments to address failing public health prevention efforts.
Without new evidence-based interventions, the WSO projects that annual deaths from stroke and dementia will reach 12 million and five million respectively, by 2050.
(Just maybe, by stopping the neuronal cascade of death , you could massively cut the 30-day death rate, probably saving many more lives that this generic press release prevention crapola you will do. But damn that will be hard! And our leadership - WSO - doesn't do hard stuff.) 
Professor Feigin says, the need for radical action is clear.
“If implemented globally, the interventions we are proposing would not only save millions of lives, but hundreds of billions of dollars annually. This money is desperately needed to strengthen global health systems and fuel economic recovery in the wake of COVID-19,” he says.
An important way to control stroke and dementia is to focus on reducing the risk factors associated with these diseases.
Low-cost solutions exist for governments and other stakeholders to reduce the common modifiable risk factors, avoiding the need for more expensive treatment, says Professor Feigin.
The Declaration outlines four interdependent interventions:(Big fucking Whoopee)
1. Population-wide strategies to reduce exposure to stroke risk factors and environmental risk factors across the entire lifespan – (ie: smoking cessation campaigns, reducing salt and sugar in processed foods, and restricting alcohol consumption).
2. Motivational strategies using mobile technologies to identify individual risk and promote behaviour change among adults – (ie: the WSO endorsed AUT Stroke Riskometer mobile app).
3. Access to low-dose blood pressure and lipid-lowering medication in one polypill for middle-age and older adults.
4. Investment, training, and deployment of community health workers to implement public health prevention strategies.
The WSO estimates that this recommended population-wide approach would reduce the incidence of stroke by 50 percent, while also addressing numerous other Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) that share common risk factors.
NCDs are a major risk for patients with COVID-19. The pandemic has revealed the particular vulnerability of those with underlying conditions.
Professor Feigin is considered one of the world’s most influential scientific minds. He ranks among the top one percent of scientists by citations for global research on the epidemiology, management, and prevention of stroke and traumatic brain injury.
“If the COVID-19 response is not adapted to encompass prevention and management of common stroke and NCD risk factors, we may fail many people at a time when their vulnerability is heightened,” he says.
Evidence from this and previous pandemics suggests that without proper management, chronic conditions can worsen due to stressful situations, as a result of restrictions, insecure economic situations, and changes in health behaviours.
Modifiable behavioural risk factors (smoking, physical inactivity, unhealthy diet, harmful use of alcohol) and metabolic risk factors (hypertension or high blood pressure, and obesity) increase the risk of stroke, dementia, and NCDs.
New Zealand has the second highest lifetime risk of stroke (26 percent) among developed countries, ahead of Canada (24 percent), the United States (23 percent), United Kingdom (21 percent), and Australia (21 percent). The highest is Finland (29 percent).

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