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, March 9, 2012

Stroke Costs Reaching Trillions Without Action, Financial Cost of Strokes to Reach $2.2 Trillion by 2050

Only from 2006. Where is the outcry about reducing these costs by finding a cure for damaged/dead neurons? If we don't start now insurance companies will decline to pay for any stroke costs because strokes are totally preventable.
You caused your problem you can live with it. Personal responsibility and all.

http://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20060816/stroke-costs-reaching-trillions
"If our society is not going to do it for the right reasons, perhaps we can do it because it's going to be obscenely expensive."
This does make an assumption that we as a country still care about helping others. Vacines were created/used to reduce the burden of childhood diseases and that was government driven.
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  1. Marcelle GreeneMarch 9, 2012 at 9:34 PM

    Scary. Already I pay out of pocket for my rehabilitation, because my insurance doesn't cover much of what I find to be effective. This means recovery will be more and more in the domain of those who can afford it.

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  2. oc1deanMarch 9, 2012 at 11:08 PM

    This is where the whole point of stroke recovery needs to change, currently the whole focus is on preventing stroke when the focus should change to saving neurons. By doing that, stopping the neuronal cascade of death can probably save more neurons and dramatically lessen the need for stroke rehabilitation. Current stroke rehabilitation is a failure and the medical establishment needs to acknowledge that.

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