Your doctor could use this but this doesn't explain why the effects occur or how to increase/decrease those effects. Someone will need to translate this into a stroke protocol.
http://www.strokejournal.org/article/S1052-3057%2814%2900041-X/abstract
Received 31 October 2013; received in revised form 9 January 2014; accepted 16 January 2014. published online 25 April 2014.
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Predicting
recovery from hemiparesis after stroke is important for rehabilitation.
A few recent studies reported that the levels of some growth factors
shortly after stroke were positively correlated with the clinical
outcomes during the chronic phase. The aim of this study was to examine
the relationships between the serum levels of growth factors (vascular
endothelial growth factor [VEGF], insulin-like growth factor-I [IGF-I],
and hepatocyte growth factor [HGF]) and improvement in hemiparesis in
stroke patients who received rehabilitation in a postacute
rehabilitation hospital. Subjects were 32 stroke patients (cerebral
infarction: 21 and intracerebral hemorrhage [ICH]: 11). We measured
serum levels of VEGF, IGF-I, and HGF and 5 items of the Stroke
Impairment Assessment Set (SIAS) for hemiparesis on admission and at
discharge. Age-matched healthy subjects (n = 15) served as controls.
Serum levels of VEGF and HGF in cerebral infarct patients on admission
were higher than those in control subjects, and the serum levels of
IGF-I in stroke patients were lower than those in controls. The level of
HGF in ICH patients on admission was negatively correlated with gains
in SIAS, and higher outliers in HGF concentration were correlated with
lower gains in SIAS. Focusing on the extremely high levels of these
factors may be a predictor of the low recovery from hemiparesis after
stroke.
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