Deans' stroke musings: ‘Super Movers’ May Have Slower Cognitive Decline

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, July 10, 2026

‘Super Movers’ May Have Slower Cognitive Decline

Until my spasticity is cured I'll never become a 'super mover'. Which means your doctor has to have other protocols that prevent cognitive decline.

‘Super Movers’ May Have Slower Cognitive Decline

Exceptionally fast gait speed is associated with a lower risk for cognitive impairment, slower cognitive decline, and greater hippocampal volume in older adults, a new study showed.

While gait speed usually declines with age, the researchers identified a group of older adults with a walking pace similar to that of people 30 years younger. In a retrospective analysis of more than 3900 adults aged 80 years or older, these ‘super movers’ had gait speeds that were at least 1.5 SDs above the age- and sex-adjusted average for their cohort.

Compared with their slower-moving peers, super movers had a lower risk for cognitive impairment over 5 years of follow-up and showed slower decline in memory, processing speed, executive function, and global cognition. However, super movers did not have lower levels of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia (ADRD) pathology.

“Our results support an exceptional aging phenotype in which superior gait performance in late life may serve as a marker of broader neurocognitive resilience,” lead investigator Oshadi Jayakody, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, and colleagues, wrote.

The study was published online on June 16 in Neurology.