Deans' stroke musings: Post-traumatic growth in acquired brain injury: A preliminary small scale study

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, August 6, 2014

Post-traumatic growth in acquired brain injury: A preliminary small scale study

It's only 8 years old so I'm sure your doctor is using this to reinforce your mental therapy.
http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02699050600664566

2006, Vol. 20, No. 7 , Pages 767-773 (doi:10.1080/02699050600664566)

Joanna Collicutt McGrath¹ ^†and P. Alex Linley²

¹Oxford Centre for Enablement, Oxford, UK

²University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

^†Correspondence: Joanna Collicutt McGrath, Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford, 54, Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PW, UK, 01865 284961, 01865 274215jcollicutt@aol.co.uk

Primary objective: To examine the nature, degree and time course of positive psychological change in people with severe acquired brain injury.

Research design: This preliminary exploratory study employed a cross-sectional design, comparing two matched samples, one early post-brain injury (M = 7 months) and one late post-brain injury (M = 10 years).
Methods and procedures: The Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI), Sense of Coherence Scale-13 (SOC-13) and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) were administered.
Main outcomes and results: The samples differed significantly with respect to reported post-traumatic growth, with the late sample reporting higher levels. HADS anxiety was significantly associated with post-traumatic growth. Both samples achieved high scores on the SOC-13.

Conclusions: The participants showed evidence of substantial positive psychological change, demonstrating that it is not precluded by severe brain injury. The results suggest that this develops slowly over time and requires a degree of emotional engagement.