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.

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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.

Sunday, January 19, 2014

Theater stroke rehab

I was at a couple of events this past weekend. Friday night was a local theater production of 12 Angry Men. Climbing the stairs in the dark is challenging. Walking to your seat and needing to get by people standing up for you is even more fun. I have to grab my damned spastic left arm and hold it to my waist or I would whack people as I go by. I can't put my left arm on the arm rest, it will migrate into the next persons space, and I don't have anyone familiar enough yet that would appreciate that contact. So I either grab the left arm and hold it diagonally on my right leg or sit on it with my right leg.
Saturday was the movie, The Great Beauty, an Italian movie which already won the Golden Globes, in preparation for our Italy trip. Same issues with the left arm. 
The best part was the end of the night, since we all drove in one van to Detroit. We stopped at one friends house and 5 of us polished off 5 bottles of wine from 12am to 3am, dissecting the whole movie and our upcoming trip. We are making sure we can consume wine properly in Italy, neuroplasticity you know, thousands and thousands of repetitions needed.

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  1. JuliaJanuary 20, 2014 at 7:18 AM

    Actully Dean, it's not neuroplasticity that will enable you to drink in Italy, it's changes in your liver that occur in response to alcohol consumption that allow you to drink more without ending up under the table with no clothes on and a lampshade on your head. Let's call this hepatoplasticity.

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    1. oc1deanJanuary 20, 2014 at 8:59 AM

      Thanks Julia, I want to make sure I report this need to my neurologist properly. This description of yours, sounds like you know exactly how this has played out before. Been under the table much?

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