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.

Friday, August 1, 2014

Objective diagnosis of your stroke damage

I bet you did not get one. You probably got non-specific crap like this:

National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale

Canadian Stroke Scale

Scandinavian stroke scale

Modified rankin scale

Barthel index

Glasgow Outcome Scale

Or maybe your doctor just shot whatever came into their mouth out; small, medium, massive. I wish our doctors would join the scientific community at some time in the next 50 years.

Ask your doctor why the hell you are not getting an objective diagnosis. And keep asking until acknowledged that they don't know how or even why it is not done.

With that level of nonusefulness how do you think your therapists can help you at all? I know they say they work with the deficits as presented. I think a much better way would be to look at the damage and actually use defined stroke protocols that have been proven to work on such damage.
Another reason why our medical staff should never say 'All strokes are different, all stroke recoveries are different'.
Example: You can't lift your arm above your head.
1. Is that because your motor cortex area is partially damaged?
2. Is that because your pre-motor cortex is partially damaged?
3. Is that because your executive control is partially damaged?
4. Is that because your motor cortex area is dead?
5. Is that because your pre-motor cortex is dead?
6. Is that because your executive control is dead?
7. Is that because your white matter used for sending signals to various areas is damaged?
8. Is that because your white matter used for sending signals to various areas is dead?
9. Is that because spasticity is stopping you from lifting your arm?
10. Is it because you are standing upright rather than lying on your back?

You can't tell me that all 10 possibilities have the exact same protocol to recover with.

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