Deans' stroke musings: Use of Rehab Therapy Poststroke Low in the United States

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, March 8, 2023

Use of Rehab Therapy Poststroke Low in the United States

Since there is nothing out there with 100% recovery protocols even those that get rehab don't get recovered. With a publicly available database of rehab protocols survivors could take them to their therapists to get them recovered. The top down approach of doctors and therapists deciding on what therapy to provide is wrong. Survivors want to control rehab since they know what they want to recover.

Use of Rehab Therapy Poststroke Low in the United States

Use of rehabilitative therapy within a year of stroke is low. Among 510 patients with acute stroke, 35.0% received no physical therapy, 48.8% received no occupational therapy, and 61.7% received no speech therapy. Severity of clinical factors, and not demographic factors, predicted rehab dosage.