Deans' stroke musings: Arguing for inaction (as applied to stroke from Seth's blog)

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.

Sunday, January 1, 2023

Arguing for inaction (as applied to stroke from Seth's blog)

Why do anything new in stroke? The brain is hard to figure out and we have tPA working so it successfully blows out the clots most of the time. Let's just sit on our laurels, collect our money and assure our patients that their lack of recovery is the best we can do. And since we are doctors, they look up to us as leaders and never question why they don't recover.

ANY RESPONSE? STROKE MEDICAL 'PROFESSIONALS'?

Arguing for inaction

…is surprisingly easy.

“We’ve done all this work and things haven’t gotten better,” so, apparently, we should stop trying and go back to what we were doing.

“We’ve done all this work and things are getting better,” so that means that there’s no need to keep trying and we can go back to what we were doing.

The status quo might not be ideal, but if we’re afraid of change, if we focus on the costs of doing the work to make things better, it’s tempting to simply stay still.

And the real fears of change are that it might work (which is scary) and that it might not work (which is heartbreaking).

Easier to do nothing and simply settle.