What should have been asked in Interview with Dr. Stephan Davis - WSO

An email I sent to

sarah@researchmedia.eu

Every communication with the stroke world should ask what they are doing to solve these problems. If you are going to interview someone like that you could at least ask some decent questions. Which of these 7 major problems in stroke is being worked on and what progress is there? 1. There is no fast, easy and objective way to diagnose a stroke. Maybe when the Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize is available. A number of friends have waited hours in ERs until stroke symptoms have visibly manifested themselves. 2. Only 10% get to almost full recovery. http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/stroke/stroke_rehabilitation.htm 3. 12% tPA efficacy http://wrkf.org/.../more-stroke-patients-now-get-clot-busting-drug 4. Nothing being done to stop the neuronal cascade of death during the first week. http://newswire.rockefeller.edu/2009/01/15/discovery-could-help-scientists-stop-the-death-cascade-after-a-stroke/ 5. No one knows how to cure spasticity. 6. No one knows how to cure fatigue. 7. No one knows how neuroplasticity exactly works to make it repeatable. Every neurologist and stroke doctor should know about all of these and be working to solve them. All the WSO does is issue press releases. I'm just a simple stroke addled 8 year survivor. Cheers, Dean Reinke