Deans' stroke musings: Revisiting usual care in stroke rehabilitation: A meta-analytic perspective

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.

Monday, March 24, 2025

Revisiting usual care in stroke rehabilitation: A meta-analytic perspective

This is the whole problem in stroke enumerated in one word; 'care'; NOT RECOVERY!

YOU have to get involved and change this failure mindset of 'care' to 100% RECOVERY! Survivors want RECOVERY, NOT 'CARE'!

ASK SURVIVORS WHAT THEY WANT, THEY'LL NEVER RESPOND 'CARE'! This tyranny of low expectations has to be completely rooted out of any stroke conversation!

RECOVERY IS THE ONLY GOAL IN STROKE! GET THERE!

Revisiting usual care in stroke rehabilitation: A meta-analytic perspective

Wen-Shi Wang^a ∙ Di Zhu^b ∙ Sen-Jun Deng^a dengsenjun0810@outlook.com

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Upper limb rehabilitation for stroke patients has long been a key focus and challenge in post-stroke rehabilitation. The recovery of upper limb function not only directly affects patients' ability to perform activities of daily living but also influences the allocation of medical resources and the demands of family caregiving. Therefore, we read with great interest the review titled ‘Upper-extremity motor recovery after stroke: A systematic review and meta-analysis of usual care(NOT RECOVERY!) in trials and observational studies’ [1]. We appreciate the authors' efforts in this field, which allow us to examine the issue from a more comprehensive perspective. At the same time, the authors have analyzed certain variables, providing further reference for research in this domain. However, based on the study's design and findings, we believe that some critical issues still require further discussion.