Deans' stroke musings: Trail Running for Longevity: Build VO2 Max, Balance, and Strength by Super Age

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.

Saturday, February 21, 2026

Trail Running for Longevity: Build VO2 Max, Balance, and Strength by Super Age

This paragraph should immediately change your doctor and therapists approach to balance recovery. Only once did my therapists take me outside to walk on the grass.

Improved balance: If you want to be upright, it helps to stay upright. People with better balance are less likely to fall, making them less likely to break bones and sit (and calcify) on the sidelines after a fall. And trail running helps. In one very small (but interesting) study of novice runners, 10 ran on trails for 8 weeks, while the other 10 ran on the road. At the end of the two-month trial, the trail runners had improved their balance more than twice as much as the road runners in a metric called the “BESS test.”