Reversing the Damage of a Stroke

My reply to the column, we'll see if it gets published.  We need to reply to all stroke articles stating what needs to be done. Our doctors, hospitals and stroke associations are totally failing in solving stroke. We need to point out that stroke is a complete failure in all respects.

Damn lucky that he managed to become one of the 10% who fully recover. Notice that the doctors had absolutely nothing to do with his recovery. If the doctors had set in motion decades ago research that would have stopped the neuronal cascade of death in the first week, billions of neurons could have been saved.  With that neuroprotection in place a lot more people could fully recover. I never use the word neuroprotection, it gives no sense of urgency. The neuronal cascade of death sounds important, that is the only way doctors and researchers will try to solve it.  I have identified 5 causes of that neuronal cascade of death, I'm sure I missed a few. 

Reversing the Damage of a Stroke

Reply: Until the stroke associations acknowledge that everything in stroke is a failure, they will never try to get survivors to 100% recovery. Full recovery using tPA is only 12%, full recovery after stroke rehab is only 10%. Since the WHO now states that 1 in 4 will have a stroke your chances of ever getting to full recovery are nil. I'm 13 years out from my stroke and assuredly will never completely recover. I explain what needs to be done for stroke in my blog, Deans' Stroke Musings. But since I'm not medically trained, non existent stroke leadership will never listen to my ideas.