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, October 5, 2010

Alzheimers and stroke

The following is a series of comments on a stroke forum where survivors worry about getting alzheimers. In a class I took the instructor stated that 40% of Azheimers diagnosises were wrong, mainly because general practitioners don't have the knowledge or ability to correctly diagnose it.
And sometimes brains from other sisters who appeared mentally intact when alive show extensive evidence of the disease.Findings from Nun Study Show Contradictions of Alzheimer's Disease
 I take this as hopeful so even if you have extensive Alzheimers you can still be mentally sharp. Which is quite a relief for me considering this article.
Research illuminates link between Alzheimer's and stroke
For years, neuroscientists have known that the risk of Alzheimer’s disease is nearly doubled among people who have had a stroke.
Research illuminates link between Alzheimer's and stroke


This particular article now speculates that what was normally considered to be a sign of Alzheimers -namely tangles and sticky plaques may actually be a sign of the fight against it. Which means to me that the nun study I quoted was probably not accurate New Science Sheds Light on the Cause of Alzheimer’s Disease
And AARP has better information than any of our stroke associations.

And then there is B vitamins - B vitamins may slow brain shrinkage
Although when I told this to a nurse, she said overdosing on B vitamins is not good.
I may have to figure out how to add to my brain reserve.The brain's reserve cells can be activated after stroke


You know the drill, don't listen to anything I have to say, ask your medical staff for information on this subject. If you are really lucky they won't say
'I know nuthin'

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