Deans' stroke musings: When These Muscles Are Fitter Your Brain Is Also Fitter

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.

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

When These Muscles Are Fitter Your Brain Is Also Fitter

I have great leg muscles. Your doctor should have stroke protocols to strengthen your leg muscles and thus your brain. But I bet s/he doesn't have one single protocol for your rehab. You can tell the incompetence of your doctor by asking your therapists what the prescription for your rehab said. If it said; E. T. (Evaluate and Treat) then your doctors knows zilch about stroke rehab. You better hope your therapists do, which is very unlikely since only 10% of stroke survivors almost fully recover.
http://www.spring.org.uk/2015/11/when-these-muscles-are-fitter-your-brain-is-also-fitter.php

The brains and bodies of identical twins were compared over ten years.

Stronger leg muscles are linked to better brain ageing, a new study finds.
It’s the first time a connection has been found between power in the lower limbs and healthy ageing in normal people.
The study suggests that increasing levels of simple exercises like walking or even standing for longer may lead to healthy cognitive ageing.
The study followed 324 identical female twins over a ten-year period.
Fitness and lifestyle habits were measured by researchers.
They also gave the twins tests of memory, learning and thinking at the start and end of the study.
Genetic factors were controlled for because identical twins have identical genes.

Leg power was the best predictor of healthy cognitive ageing out of all the factors the researchers measured.
In general, the twin which had the strongest leg power at the start of the study maintained stronger mental abilities ten years later.
The twin with stronger legs also maintained the most amount of grey matter in the brain.
The legs contain the largest muscles in the body so they are of particular relevance to fitness.
Dr Claire Steves, who led the research said:

“Everyone wants to know how best to keep their brain fit as they age.
Identical twins are a useful comparison, as they share many factors, such as genetics and early life, which we can’t change in adulthood.
It’s compelling to see such differences in cognition and brain structure in identical twins, who had different leg power ten years before.
It suggests that simple lifestyle changes to boost our physical activity may help to keep us both mentally and physically healthy.”

The study was published in the journal G