Deans' stroke musings: Your Moves Might Reflect Your Longevity

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, August 19, 2025

Your Moves Might Reflect Your Longevity

In the past 19 years my score would always be 1.5 and it will never get better during my next 31 years. It has absolutely nothing to do with my longevity or cardiovascular risk!

Your Moves Might Reflect Your Longevity

A recent study in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology expanded on a 2012 study about how the Sit and Rise Test (SRT) predicts longevity. SRT could be beneficial in medical exams, particularly for older adults.

The Downs and Ups
SRT measures an individual’s ability to lower themselves to a seated position on the floor and then rise back to a standing position with little to no assistance from other body parts, external props such as a chair, table or wall, or from another person.
What Does SRT Measure?
SRT is a good indicator of a person’s muscle strength, flexibility, core stability and joint mobility. Overall body strength and balance tend to decline with age. SRT can provide a baseline approach to measuring musculoskeletal health.
Higher Is Better
A perfect score is 10 (5 points for sitting; 5 points for standing) with a point deducted any time support is needed to transition to either position.
How Results Correlate With Longevity
Higher SRT scores are linked to significantly lower risk of death from natural and cardiovascular causes. In the follow-up study of adults aged 46-75, those with low scores (0-4) had a 42% mortality rate(I should be dead by now according to this! What a bogus test for stroke survivors!) compared to just 3.7% for those with a perfect score of 10.
SRT in Wellness Exams
SRT can be performed in any setting and is a quick way to gauge a patient’s physical abilities. A low score could indicate the need for an exercise program that focuses on strengthening the core and lower body or specialized assessments for more concerning cases.

Bottom line: A low SRT score could indicate that a patient needs to improve their strength, flexibility and balance necessary for musculoskeletal health, a predictor of longevity. Incorporating SRT in practice is a simple and fast way to measure physical functionality.