Deans' stroke musings: Stroke patients ‘should be offered more intensive rehab’

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.

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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.

Friday, October 20, 2023

Stroke patients ‘should be offered more intensive rehab’

What the fuck good will that do? You don't have guaranteed results from the rehab guidelines. Guidelines NOT PROTOCOLS!

Stroke patients ‘should be offered more intensive rehab’

Stroke patients should be offered additional rehabilitation to help them recover, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended, despite recognising this is likely to put NHS and community rehab teams under even greater pressure.

The guidance, which updates the original guidelines published in 2013, now recommends that people who have had a stroke should be offered needs-based rehabilitation for at least three hours a day on at least five days of the week.

This should cover a range of multidisciplinary therapy, including physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech and language therapy. The original 2013 guidance previously recommended that 45 minutes of rehabilitation a day was enough.

An evidence review by NICE showed more intensive rehabilitation improved quality of life and activities of daily living.