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.

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Resistance Training and White Matter Lesion Progression in Older Women: Exploratory Analysis of a 12-Month Randomized Controlled Trial

You'll have to send your doctor after the exact weight lifting protocol used in this study. Because our fucking failures of stroke associations do not have publicly available research findings.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26456233
Bolandzadeh N1,2,3,4,5, Tam R6, Handy TC7, Nagamatsu LS8, Hsu CL1,3,4,5, Davis JC1,5,9,10, Dao E1,3,4,5, Beattie BL5,11, Liu-Ambrose T1,2,3,4,5.

Abstract

OBJECTIVES:

To assess whether resistance training (RT) slows the progression of white matter lesions (WMLs) in older women.

DESIGN:

Secondary analysis of a 52-week randomized controlled trial of RT, the Brain Power Study.

SETTING:

Community center and research center.

PARTICIPANTS:

Of 155 community-dwelling women aged 65 to 75 enrolled in the Brain Power Study, 54 who had evidence of WMLs on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at baseline were included in this secondary analysis.

INTERVENTION:

Participants were randomized to once-weekly RT (1× RT), twice-weekly RT (2× RT), or twice-weekly balance and tone (BAT). Assessors were blinded to participant assignments.

MEASUREMENTS:

WML volume was measured using MRI at baseline and trial completion.

RESULTS:

At trial completion, the 2× RT group had significantly lower WML volume than the BAT group (P = .03). There was no significant difference between the BAT group and the 1× RT group at trial completion (P = .77). Among participants in the two RT groups, reduced WML progression over 12 months was significantly associated with maintenance of gait speed (correlation coefficient (r) = -0.31, P = .049) but not with executive functions (r = 0.30; P = .06).

CONCLUSION:

Engaging in progressive RT may reduce WML progression.

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