Once again not acknowledging all the problems in stroke, never mentioning that the existing stroke therapies are practically worthless and the the medical establishment has failed stroke survivors.
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-04-fast.html
You don't need superpowers to be a hero when
it comes to stroke, you just need to pay attention to the risk factors
and know the warning signs.
"Stroke is
largely preventable and treatable," said Mary Ann Bauman, M.D., chair of
the American Stroke Association Advisory Committee. "The best way to
beat a stroke is to never have one – about 80 percent of strokes are
preventable. The second best way to beat a stroke is to identify one
immediately when it occurs and call 911." (You're lying by omission, not telling people tPA only works fully to reverse the stroke 12% of the time.)
For American Stroke Month this May, the American Stroke Association's
Together to End Stroke initiative, nationally sponsored by Medtronic,
offers five things everyone should know to be a Stroke Hero.
1. Anyone Can Have a Stroke (Even Superheroes) - Some stroke patients
don't "look the part" and they may not have a traditional stroke risk
factor like high blood pressure. Stroke is more common in older people,
but young adults, teens, children and even babies can be victims.
2. High Blood Pressure is Public Enemy # 1 for Stroke - About 80 million Americans have high blood pressure,
yet about half with the condition do not have it under control. Three
out of four people who have a first stroke report blood pressure higher
than 140/90 mm Hg, making blood pressure the most important controllable risk factor for stroke.
3. Stroke Targets by Color - While stroke is a leading cause of death
for all Americans, African-Americans are at an increased risk. Blacks
are nearly twice as likely to have a stroke compared to whites, and more
likely to have it at a younger age.
4. Stroke is Largely Treatable - Clot-busting drugs and medical
devices like stent retrievers have made stroke largely treatable,(bullshit, you are doing nothing during the neuronal cascade of death) but
most patients need to get to an appropriate hospital to be evaluated and
treated within 3 to 4.5 hours of the first symptom. With nearly 2
million brain cells dying every minute during a stroke, there's no time
to phone a friend or take a nap. Calling 911 is the best call for
stroke.
5. Friends Usually Save Friends from Stroke - You've heard the saying
"fast friends". If you're having a stroke, that's exactly who you need
nearby. Two out of three times, it's a bystander making the decision to
call 911 or seek treatment on behalf of someone suffering a stroke. To
remember the most common stroke warning signs
and what action to take, learn the acronym F.A.S.T. If you see F-Face
drooping, A-Arm weakness or S-Speech difficulty, it's T-Time to call
911.
The American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart
Association, launched Together to End Stroke with inaugural sponsor
Covidien, now Medtronic, in 2013 to elevate the message that stroke is
largely preventable, treatable and beatable.
"Like the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association, Medtronic is committed to improving the lives of stroke patients,"
said Brett Wall, president, Brain Therapies, Medtronic. "Over the past
three years, Together to End Stroke has helped boost stroke warning sign
recognition, which leads to more people getting to treatment in time.
We are happy to continue our support of this important initiative to
raise awareness of stroke."
My comment on this, we'll see if accepted.
You failed to mention that tPA is a failure and only works to completely reverse the stroke 12% of the time. Stroke rehab is a failure in that only 10% of survivors get to almost full recovery.
You are dropping all the responsibility on laypersons rather than the medical establishment which is shirking its responsibility to solve these problems.
Use the labels in the right column to find what you want. Or you can go thru them one by one, there are only 28,987 posts. Searching is done in the search box in upper left corner. I blog on anything to do with stroke.DO NOT DO ANYTHING SUGGESTED HERE AS I AM NOT MEDICALLY TRAINED, YOUR DOCTOR IS, LISTEN TO THEM. BUT I BET THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET YOU 100% RECOVERED. I DON'T EITHER, BUT HAVE PLENTY OF QUESTIONS FOR YOUR DOCTOR TO ANSWER.
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.
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Dean, . I get all prickly at stats like "80% of all strokes are preventable." Like you, I had a stroke, caused by a dissected carotid artery, that could have been prevented only by not participating in a sport I love. Rowing is a full-body, cardiovascular work-out, something that kept me in great physical shape. My fellow rowers don't believe rowing caused the stroke - they're fitter than they've been in their lives, credit rowing for it, and are convinced that they could NEVER have a stroke. So they comfort themselves by denying the cause of the stroke I had.
ReplyDeleteAnd the likely reason I survived is because of the complete body workouts I was doing by canoeing.
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