Deans' stroke musings: Goal setting in stroke rehabilitation: a systematic review and qualitative synthesis of the experiences and perspectives of healthcare professionals

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, April 19, 2026

Goal setting in stroke rehabilitation: a systematic review and qualitative synthesis of the experiences and perspectives of healthcare professionals

You INCOMPETENTLY DON'T KNOW THAT THE ONLY GOAL IN STROKE IS 100% RECOVERY! You're all fired! Your tyranny of low expectations is complete bullshit! Don't you dare push that crapola on survivors!

Goal setting in stroke rehabilitation: a systematic review and qualitative synthesis of the experiences and perspectives of healthcare professionals

Nils Rickardsson*, Anna Fiserova, Sarlota Duchonova,

Hannah Hafiz, Martina Hagarova, Brodie Morton,

Helena Tessmann, Christopher D. Graham

*Corresponding author for this work

Psychology

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Abstract

Goal setting is an integral component of stroke rehabilitation. It refers to a collaborative process where patients and one or several members of the multidisciplinary team(The only voice to be listened to is the survivors; The team has no say because their incompetence needs to be exposed, not agreed to!) agree on specific, often time-limited, targets.1 Such collaboration helps ensure that goals are both personally meaningful to the patient and clinically focused in light of stroke-related impairments. In practice, goals in rehabilitation may involve short-term, quantifiable, aspects of progress in the rehabilitation setting, such walking a twenty-meter distance for someone with mobility problems.(WOW! A massively low bar, so you can declare success, even though that IS NOT SUCCES FOR THE PATIENT who demands full recovery!) Goals can also be more long-term, and relate to participation in the community, such as attending a concert with a loved one.