Deans' stroke musings: Stroke Survivors – reduce your risk of having another stroke - research trial from Hunter Medical Research Institute, Australia

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.

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Stroke Survivors – reduce your risk of having another stroke - research trial from Hunter Medical Research Institute, Australia

Have at it.

Stroke Survivors – reduce your risk of having another stroke - research trial from Hunter Medical Research Institute, Australia

How will the success of the research programs be measured?

So we can measure if the program works, we will ask you to do the following before you start the program, and again every 3 months while you are involved in the study (for 12 months all together):

Answer some questions about your stroke, your medications, your health, how much exercise you do and your diet
Take regular blood pressure measures for 1 week at home (we will send you a monitor and show you how to use it)
Wear an activity monitor on your thigh for 1 week to measure how active you are (we will send the monitor to you)
We might also ask you to do an interview with one of our research team about your experience in being involved in the study.

Who can participate?

You are suitable to participate if you:

are aged over 18 years
have had a stroke or TIA in the last 10 years
are able to walk at least short distances without someone helping you
have an internet connection and either a laptop computer or tablet device at home (we may be able to provide one if you don’t)
have medical clearance from your doctor to exercise (we will help arrange this)
are living in Australia