Deans' stroke musings: Brain Implant Offers New Hope for Stroke Survivors

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.

Friday, October 31, 2025

Brain Implant Offers New Hope for Stroke Survivors

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The latest here:

Brain Implant Offers New Hope for Stroke Survivors

Every year, 15 million people worldwide suffer strokes, with 5 million dying and another 5 million left permanently disabled, according to the World Health Organization. But a new FDA-approved brain implant surgery is providing hope where traditional rehabilitation has reached its limits.

Tommy Fello was driving home from work on Christmas Day 2023 when his car began veering left. Initially thinking he had a flat tire, Fello soon realized something was seriously wrong. His family acted quickly, checking for stroke symptoms and calling an ambulance—a decision that likely saved his life.

The Cleveland Clinic is among a handful of U.S. sites combining physical therapy with vagal nerve stimulation through a brain implant to help stroke patients regain function after traditional rehab plateaus.

"In our experience so far, we've implanted about 10 of these vagal nerve stimulators and almost all of the patients have had improvement," says Dr. Mark Bain, a cerebrovascular neurosurgeon at Cleveland Clinic who performed Fello's surgery.

Months after the procedure, Fello is seeing daily progress in recovering movement and function.

Watch the full video(at link) above to hear Tommy Fello's inspiring journey and learn more about how this groundbreaking procedure is helping stroke survivors reclaim their lives.