Deans' stroke musings: HMC to open rehabilitation facility for stroke patients

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.

Sunday, November 27, 2016

HMC to open rehabilitation facility for stroke patients - Qatar Rehabilitation Institute

YOU are going to have to DEMAND that goals and objectives are set for stroke. 100% recovery.
'Best care' is not the answer. Best care allows the doctors and hospital to not even attempt to solve any of the problems in stroke.
http://www.gulf-times.com/story/522554/HMC-to-open-rehabilitation-facility-for-stroke-pat
Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) will open the Qatar Rehabilitation Institute (QRI) in Hamad Bin Khalifa Medical City soon, offering best care in rehabilitation services for stroke patients and others.
The groundbreaking new facility will provide patients with world-class integrated rehabilitation services, including specialist stroke recovery. Multi-disciplinary teams of physicians and occupational, physical, paediatric and speech therapists will work together to offer advanced stroke and traumatic brain injury treatments and services.
These cutting-edge services and treatments will be tailored to each patient’s individual needs. For stroke patients, one of the services that will be offered is intensive gait training to help patients walk again. Additionally, QRI’s strength and endurance services will focus on helping patients’ neurologic, muscular, bone and joint recovery to help them regain their independence.
The QRI’s co-ordinated and collaborative interdisciplinary approach to treatment and therapy will be based on the most up-to-date research and practice and its foremost goal will be to help patients reach their maximum recovery potential so that they can return to living as normal a life as possible.
One crucial aspect of stroke care is rehabilitation, said Dr Wafaa al-Yazeedi, acting chairperson of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department at Rumailah Hospital. “Due to the prevalence of risk factors such as diabetes, smoking, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, the incidence of stroke in Qatar is rising. Each year, more than 1,000 acute stroke patients are admitted to HMC and many of these patients require long-term rehabilitative care to help them recover,” she said.
“The primary aim of stroke rehabilitation is to enable the patient to relearn the motor skills they have lost due to the stroke. HMC’s expert rehabilitation teams work together by setting individual patient goals to overcome challenges and find innovative solutions that noticeably improve patient recovery,” said Dr al-Yazeedi.
“The rehabilitation process for patients at HMC begins as early as possible, often 24 to 48 hours after the stroke has occurred. It is important to start the patient’s recovery process as soon as possible to give them the best chance of recovery,” she noted.
Acute strokes often damage critical parts of the brain that control muscle strength, movement and co-ordination. When the blood supply to the brain is suddenly cut off due to an acute stroke, damage to these areas of the brain can lead to a loss of function and coordination in various parts of the body.