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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, March 20, 2019
Why there is new hope for Britain’s 1.2 million stroke survivors
Well then write it up as a protocol and define the EXACT OBJECTIVE damage diagnosis for those it would help.
Britain’s 1.2 million stroke survivors have been given hope of
further recovery after a groundbreaking study found they can make
significant improvements in arm and hand use for at least 20 years after
their stroke.
The findings overturn the medical consensus that after three to six
months little can be done to improve a stroke patient’s ability to carry
out everyday tasks such as tying shoe laces or doing up buttons.
The consensus means that stroke survivors currently receive little to no therapy on the NHS after the first few months.
“This is potentially a game-changer and I’m really excited about it,” Nick Ward
But new research finds that giving patients physiotherapy 20 years –
and potentially more – after their stroke can bring life-changing
improvements in hand, arm, shoulder, elbow and finger movements.
Furthermore, the researchers found that survivors are able to
tolerate – and benefit from – much greater doses of therapy than they
get at the moment.
“This is potentially a game-changer and I’m really excited about it,”
said lead researcher Professor Nick Ward, of University College London.
‘Could really make a difference’
“This feels like the most significant thing I’ve been involved with –
like it could really make a difference,” added Prof Ward, who also a
consultant at the NHS Foundation Trust National Hospital for Neurology
& Neurosurgery in London.
“All this talk about the window of opportunity shutting within which you could recover is nonsense,” he said.
The study involved 238 stroke survivors between three months and 20
years after their stroke. It found that, in some cases, the therapy made
the difference between being able to carry out everyday tasks such as
tying back their hair or dressing themselves – and not.
This, in turn, can make the difference between being able to live
independently or being dependent on others for at least one aspect of
their daily care, according to Prof Ward.
Expert reaction
Experts in the field who were not involved in the study welcomed its findings.
“This study is incredibly important because it shows clearly that
people still have the capacity to recover years after their stroke.
Health authorities everywhere should take note and offer far more
therapy,” said John Krakauer, of John Hopkins University in the US.
Professor Marion Walker, of Nottingham University, added: “This study
has shown that you can get a sea change – not only to your impairment
but to your functional ability. And if you’re a stroke survivor with
very little arm movement this is golddust, it gives hope.”
Dr Kate Holmes, Assistant Director of Research at the Stroke
Association, added: “This research is encouraging because it shows that
real improvements can be made with therapy far later than is generally
considered to be the case.”
What happens next
Prof Ward and others stressed that more studies are needed to confirm
his findings and to determine which kinds of therapy would be most
effective. He hopes these will lead to therapy being available for
long-suffering stroke survivors in at least some specialist clinics with
five years.
For now, he advises stroke survivors to pester their GP for some top-up therapy.
All stroke patients are eligible for this but most don’t know about it – and unless you push for it you won’t get it, he says.
The research is published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. Gerry Hurrell, the father of six who had a stroke in July 2017.
Gerry Hurrell from Digswell, Hertfordshire: A case study
The 58-year old father of six had four strokes over two
weeks in July 2017. Since then he has demonstrated what he calls his
“bloody-minded” streak as he battles to regain the full use of his body.
He is scathing of the notion that nothing more can be
done to improve movement after a few months – and wholeheartedly agrees
with the findings in the new study.
“I remember when I had my stroke, I read pamphlets that
said ‘Oh, I’ve only got six months to improve, otherwise I’m not going
to make it’. Politely, that’s complete rubbish,” he said.
Still improving
“Even now after 18 months I still feel improvements are
being made. My experience encourages me to go on. I don’t think for a
second I’ve finished improving,” he said.
“Unfortunately, because of the depressive nature of
strokes, I think an awful lot of people give up too easily, too quickly.
I’m not blaming them but I think they don’t have the support network
around them, either through family or through physiotherapists. You
really need that.”
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