Deans' stroke musings: Prestigious grant gives Kentucky a win in the battle against stroke

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.

Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Prestigious grant gives Kentucky a win in the battle against stroke

This will be completely wasted unless YOU get involved and demand that this be used to create 100% recovery protocols. I don't have access to put in comments but if someone could paste that first sentence in there. We need to make people who don't know what the hell they are doing in stroke uncomfortable so they just quit.

Prestigious grant gives Kentucky a win in the battle against stroke

UK HealthCare, the Kentucky Department for Public Health’s Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program, the University of Louisville and other state partners have been awarded a prestigious, initial three-year, $1.8 million Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Program Grant.

More than 2,000 Kentuckians die from stroke or stroke-related complications each year, which is among the highest rates in the country. Rates of stroke risk factors such as smoking, obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, excessive alcohol use and physical inactivity are high in Kentucky, particularly portions of the commonwealth under significant socioeconomic stress. The state’s Appalachian counties are disproportionately affected — stroke mortality in the region is 14% higher than the national average and 8% higher than the rest of the state.

Although there are several existing stroke prevention and care(Survivors don't give a crap about 'care'. They want recovery, talk to them sometime.) programs in Kentucky, the Coverdell award will allow us to coordinate and expand these efforts. The program establishes the Kentucky Stroke Improvement Cooperative, bringing together a variety of groups and programs to provide leadership for improving the quality of stroke care in the commonwealth.