Deans' stroke musings: Predicting the future After a stroke, people often want to know how their recovery could progress and what life might look like in the future. Right now, there aren’t many tools available to help health professionals to predict recovery, so we’re funding research to change this. Here are some of the ways are our researchers are looking to improve our understanding of recovery:

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.

Sunday, September 6, 2020

Predicting the future After a stroke, people often want to know how their recovery could progress and what life might look like in the future. Right now, there aren’t many tools available to help health professionals to predict recovery, so we’re funding research to change this. Here are some of the ways are our researchers are looking to improve our understanding of recovery:

Wrong, wrong, wrong, Current predictions are based upon the 90% failure rate to get to full recovery. We don't need stupid research like this to continue. We need to solve stroke.

I'll simplify it for you in 5 steps:

Damn it all: stroke is easy; 5 steps.
1. Describe the problems exactly. There are tens of thousands of pieces of research already hinting at solutions, just need followup.
2. Write thousands of RFPs to researchers/MIT grads to solve those problems.
3. Fund them with foundation grants.
4. Write stroke rehab protocols based on the research.
5. Get the Nobel prize in medicine.

But nothing will occur like this.

WE HAVE NO LEADERSHIP AND NO STRATEGY.

Predicting the future. After a stroke, people often want to know how their recovery could progress and what life might look like in the future. Right now, there aren’t many tools available to help health professionals to predict recovery, so we’re funding research to change this. Here are some of the ways are our researchers are looking to improve our understanding of recovery:

Using brain scans

Many stroke survivors have mobility problems in their hands and arms. Recovery can be more predictable for stroke survivors with mild difficulties, but it’s harder to predict if they’re severely affected.

Professor Nick Ward is exploring whether information from stroke survivors’ brain scans can help to predict how stroke survivors with severe difficulties might recover their movement.

Nick says: “Our goal is to understand the mechanisms of recovery so that we can predict what treatments will work best for stroke survivors.”

Creating new vision tests

Vision problems after stroke can make everyday tasks challenging. Currently, there isn’t a way to test stroke survivors’ vision to find out what impact it’ll have on their daily life.

Dr Kathleen Vancleef wants to solve this. She’s working with stroke survivors to trial a new vision test that could predict the effect of stroke-related vision problems on stroke survivors’ daily life after six months.

Kathleen says: “I hope my research will help stroke survivors to understand more about their condition, so they know what rehabilitation or adjustments they need to make life easier.”

Developing computer models and databases

Stroke survivors often experience changes to their mood and thinking. They might worry more, lack confidence, or have difficulty concentrating. These problems can improve or get worse over many years.

Until now, research has only followed people for a short time after their stroke. This means we don’t have enough information about how these problems may change over time to be able to predict how they can expect to recover and respond to treatment.

We’re funding Dr Nele Demeyere and her team to follow 200 stroke survivors for three years to find out how stroke affects mood and thinking in the long-term.

Nele says: “Understanding the impact these effects have on people’s lives and recoveries will help stroke survivors and their families plan for the future, and enable scientists to develop effective treatments and coping strategies.