Deans' stroke musings: Tipperary TD And Senator Back Urgent Calls For A New National Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Health Policy

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.

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Tipperary TD And Senator Back Urgent Calls For A New National Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Health Policy

Get involved and DEMAND 100% STROKE RECOVERY PROTOCOLS! Do not back down! Call them blithering idiots for not solving stroke NOW before they become the 1 in 4 per WHO that has a stroke!

Tipperary TD And Senator Back Urgent Calls For A New National Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Health Policy

A Tipperary TD and Senator have joined an Oireachtas Heart and Stroke group to back urgent calls for a new national cardiovascular disease (CVD) health policy.

Deputy Mattie McGrath and Senator Imelda Goldsboro have agreed to be advocates for the thousands of heart disease and stroke patients in their constituency.

In Tipperary, 19,000 people live with the disease, which causes a wide range of heart conditions while, nationally, 80,000 CVD patients are discharged home every year.

Ireland has not had a CVD disease policy for over five years and the Irish Heart Foundation(IHF) is now lobbying for this failure to be addressed which it says will deliver huge reductions in preventable death and disability.

Ireland has the lowest number of cardiologists per capita in the EU and there is a critical need for investment in cardiac imaging including Cardiac MRI according to the Irish Heart Foundation. In addition, the IHF wants improved cardiac and stroke rehabilitation services and action to create awareness around the risks associated with high blood pressure.

Cashel is the venue for the 2025 National Stroke Conference on Monday. The event is fully booked out according to one of the key organisers Tipperary town’s Martin Quinn. The Conference is hosted by the South Tipperary Stroke Communication group. It is the 4th Conference hosted by the group and will provide information on a range of topics including aphasia (difficulties with language post stroke), brain injury, rehabilitation, therapy and recovery, support for family and carers, risks and prevention, and medical advances in the treatment of stroke. Attendees will also receive an update on the National Stroke Strategy.