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.

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Rehabilitation After Stroke from Germany

A good explanation of how Germany does rehabilitation.
I did like this paragraph on brain reserve, which I want more research on, so I can increase my brain reserve again so I survive my next one. new word - leukoaraiosis
The decisive factor
here is the brain’s reserve capacity, i.e., the absence of
pre-existing damage in the form of subclinical vascular
lesions. Accordingly, persons who had led an active
lifestyle till just before the stroke (7) and those with no
more than a minor degree of leukoaraiosis (pre-existing
white-matter damage) have been found to recover particularly
well from stroke. In fact, the beneficial effect
of not having leukoaraiosis is of comparable magnitude
to that of thrombolysis. Thus, pre-existing brain
damage is more important than age as a determinant of
the chance of recovery (8)

Where is something similar for the US?, the ASA or NSA are falling down on their mission statements.

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