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.

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

A disease appears uncurable, so we don't talk about it. It's easier to talk about the little stuff.

A quote from Seth Godin. This is so appallingly true in strokes' case. We never talk about all the problems in stroke. We gladly put out press releases and talk about minor research findings that suggest this intervention or this food might reduce the risk of stroke. Or we promote telemedicine because that allows a few more people to get tPA, even though tPA when looked at objectively is a failure most of the time.

I expect leaders to tackle the toughest problems and we seem to have NO leaders in stroke at all.

The denials all sound the same. They don’t come from stupidity, from people who aren’t smart enough to understand what’s going on. They come from people who won’t look.

As far as I am concerned these people are not leaders:
NSA President - Mr. Lopez
AHA President - Dr. Arnett
WSO President - Dr. Davis 
 

Someone should be able to prove me wrong with examples of how they are tackling the problems in stroke. Not press releases, actual work to solve these problems by following a strategy. Someday, one of these persons will call me up and invite me to talk to them. 

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