Deans' stroke musings: Check Your Earlobe for Possible Sign of Stroke Risk

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.

Friday, July 14, 2017

Check Your Earlobe for Possible Sign of Stroke Risk

You might want to know how your doctor is treating your earlobe crease. What protocol is being used? I don't have a crease.
http://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2017/franks-sign-stroke-risk-fd.html?cmp=EMC-DSO-NLC-WBLTR---MTEST-071417-F1-2268265&ET_CID=2268265&ET_RID=12748640&encparam=6sDWLkOCvMbAliSHH3fI+lmKMME1NVqH0iSD/KcZOT4=

A deep crease could be cause for concern

by Kim Hayes, AARP, June 2, 2017|Comments: 0

Ear Lobe Crease May be Sign of Stroke Risk

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Deep diagonal creases in the ear are known as Frank's sign.

Health experts often say that your body offers telltale signs that something is wrong, such as changes in your skin and nails indicating serious internal illnesses. But even your earlobes could be sending you a crucial message about your cardiovascular health, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Medicine.
The condition, known as Frank’s sign, is a diagonal earlobe crease that was found to have a relationship to risk of stroke. The researchers, who are based in Israel, studied 241 patients who were hospitalized with a stroke and found that 79 percent had Frank’s sign.

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Additionally, 66 of the patients who suffered the most common type of stroke, acute ischemic (where a blockage cuts off blood supply to the brain), had previously experienced a heart attack. In this group, almost 9 out of 10 had the Frank’s sign marker.
From these findings, researchers concluded that Frank's sign could predict ischemic cerebrovascular events (strokes) and that patients with classical cardiovascular risk factors had the ear crease in higher numbers.
Frank’s sign is named after Sanders T. Frank, M.D., who discovered it in the 1970s while examining a patient with heart disease. The crease may signal poor blood supply to the earlobes, or could be a symptom of weakening in the blood vessels. It could also be related to aging.

If you have a deep crease in your earlobe and are concerned about your cardiovascular health, talk with your doctor about risk factors to see if additional tests are warranted.