Deans' stroke musings: MEDICAL REHABILITATION AND GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE (GDS) SCORE IN THE POST STROKE GERIATRIC PATIENT

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.

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

MEDICAL REHABILITATION AND GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE (GDS) SCORE IN THE POST STROKE GERIATRIC PATIENT

It is incredibly easy to explain why rehab in geriatric patients doesn't improve depression. There are NO PROTOCOLS TO ANYTHING CLOSE TO RECOVERY. As such these patients realize they are screwed and will never come close to being normal ever again. The solution is simple. EXACT REHAB PROTOCOLS THAT LEAD TO 100% RECOVERY. If you can't see that get the hell out of stroke.

MEDICAL REHABILITATION AND GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE (GDS) SCORE IN THE POST STROKE GERIATRIC PATIENT

Karina N Gunawan1), Bonaventura H Daeng2), Cissy Cecilia3)

ABSTRACT

Introduction: Post-stroke depression ranged between 11-68% depends on patient's diversity, diagnostic criteria, and duration between follow-ups after a stroke attack. Prevalence may increase due to the patient's age. Medical rehabilitation and psychotherapy are a necessary effort to help patients overcome their disability. Medical rehabilitation for post-stroke patients includes restoring body functions, handling comorbid dysfunction, exercising individual independence, increasing quality of life, and preventing stroke recurrence.
Aim:
The objective of this research is to look for the correlation between medical rehabilitation and GDS Score in post-stroke geriatric patients.
Methods:
This research is an analytical observational with 1 group cohort time approach. The population is post-stroke geriatric patients who go through medical rehabilitation in Primasatya Husada Citra Hospital Surabaya.
Result:
Using the Chi-Square Test, the value of p is 1. After two weeks of medical rehabilitation, this shows that there is no significant correlation between medical rehabilitation and changes in the GDS score in post-stroke geriatric patients. The value of the odds ratio is 2,333.
Conclusion: There was no significant effect of medical rehabilitation on GDS scores in elderly patients after stroke.