Deans' stroke musings: Post-stroke checklist survey launched

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.

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Post-stroke checklist survey launched

The proper checklist is one question! Are you fully recovered? Y/N?

Anything more that that is useless and trying to justify incompetence in not getting survivors recovered!

Post-stroke checklist survey launched

The World Stroke Organization (WSO) has launched a global survey to find out how the Post-Stroke Checklist is being used in practice and what is stopping it from being used more widely. SAFE encourages healthcare professionals and stroke support organisations across Europe to take part.

The Post-Stroke Checklist is a validated screening tool that helps professionals and stroke survivors talk through unmet needs at follow-up appointments and when moving between services. It was developed through international collaboration, is endorsed by WSO, and covers the areas of life most affected by stroke: mood and emotional wellbeing, cognition and communication, fatigue and sleep, pain and sensory changes, mobility and daily activities and carer strain and social support.

Yet little is known about how often the checklist is used in routine care, or what helps and hinders its use. The survey, led by WSO’s Stroke Support Organization Committee, aims to close that gap. It will also look at whether the checklist has been translated or adapted for different languages and cultures, a question that matters greatly across Europe’s many health systems.

Who should take part

The survey is open to stroke physicians, rehabilitation professionals, clinical and health system leaders, stroke programme leads, and representatives of stroke organisations worldwide. You don’t need to have used the checklist, the researchers want to hear from regular users, people who have tried it once and people who have never heard of it.

It takes around 15 minutes and asks about your familiarity with the checklist, how it is used in your setting, the barriers and enablers you see, and what would support wider uptake.