By: dean reinke

dean reinke — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 21:54:07 +0000

I’m just a stroke survivor so I have a stroke-addled brain. There are two things that I think are wrong with almost all stroke rehabilitation research.
1. There is no standard definition of stroke damage. With no standard definition no one can repeat the experiment bacause the starting point is not the same.
Please don’t use the excuse that ‘all strokes are different, all stroke recoveries are different’, the first might be true because a ml. difference in position could result in different deficits, but the recovery part has never been proved. Until we get a longitudinal study done following survivors for 30 years will we know the facts.
2. No one breaks out recovery of penumbra damage vs. dead brain damage.
I actually use and believe in mirror-box therapy even though to me it has not met scientific standards.

Comments on: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall – Stroke Rehabilitation

By: dean reinke