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, November 30, 2013

Stroke: Know when to act, and act quickly

From Harvard Medical School Healthbeat newsletter.
I absolutely hate these public service announcements because they make it sound as if all you have to do to recover from a stroke is get to a stroke hospital fast enough. If people knew how little can be done and how ineffective stroke treatments are, they would be screaming at the absurdity of this.  Until it is acknowledged that stroke treatments are a complete failure will better treatments be found. But that will require smart arrogant medical persons to acknowledge that they have failed stroke patients for the last 30 years.

And I thought people from Harvard were smart.

When stroke symptoms occur, quick action is vital. If you think you or someone with you is having a stroke call 911. Ideally the person affected should be taken to a hospital emergency room that has expertise and experience in treating stroke as it occurs (called acute stroke). If you or someone you love is at high risk for having a stroke, you should know the name and location of the nearest hospital that specializes in treating acute stroke. Ask your doctor for help in finding out which facilities fit that bill.
The goal of stroke treatment is to restore blood circulation before brain tissue dies. To prevent brain cell death that is significant enough to cause disability, treatment is most effective if it starts within 60 minutes of the onset of symptoms.
An important goal of ongoing stroke research is to find treatments that can buy time by protecting the person’s brain until blood circulation is restored, which can increase the chances of survival and decrease the chances of disability. (This is what is wrong, they don't even know that a ton of neurons  keep dying after circulation is restored. Its almost as if they have never heard of the neuronal cascade of death. Damn them all.)
For more information on ways to prevent and treat strokes, buy Stroke: Preventing and treating “brain attack,” a Special Health Report from Harvard Medical School.

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