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 8, 2010

stroke measurement

Hi Does anyone know how a strokes severity is managed? This question came on a stroke forum and piqued my interest. After some research there is really nothing out there. For example 1-10 scale
one-size-fits-all
Cancer has stages and at least they tell you where the cancer is located.
I have heard of a couple of people who were told ccs of dead area but even they were not told where the dead area was. but alas I was told nothing.
from 1998
American Heart Association Classification of Stroke Outcome Task Force has worked to develop a valid and reliable global classification system that accurately summarizes the neurological impairments, disabilities, and handicaps that occur after stroke.
For stroke survivors to receive the best care, a comprehensive stroke outcome classification system is needed to direct appropriate therapeutic interventions
And these scales are based on deficits rather than the parts of the brain that were damaged. Here is the classfication system
I agree with the need but it is based on impairments rather than brain location and penumbra damage vs. dead brain so I think this is actually rather useless. I don't think this ever gained acceptence since no survivor has ever mentioned it.

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