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In Reply to: RE: Stroke rehabilitation that actually works posted by Charles Hansen on April 06, 2008 at 08:52:02
I suffered what was effectively a very minor stroke in late 1984 which has left me with 3 sensory deficits: a partial right sided loss of touch sensation, a loss of the sense of taste on the right side of the tongue, and I now don't start to feel cold until the temperature drops to a level quite a few degrees below where most people are wearing their winter warms. Annoying and inconvenient losses but hardly major ones, though it was certainly a life changing experience.
One of the things I learned at the time was that about 90% of stroke recovery takes place in the first 6 months and that recovery is effectively complete after 18 months so basically you've got a 6 month window in which to start getting things back after a stroke. Several years after a stroke further recovery is going to be extremely unlikely and after 24 years as in my case I would suggest that it is simply impossible.
Whether or not you do get things back depends on the degree of damage. Some damage is simply so severe as to be irrecoverable. Dead tissue is dead. Damaged tissue may or may not recover. Those are basic facts. I'd be careful about making claims that any treatment will produce results years after a stroke unless some of that evidence you point to actually relates to studies of treatments commenced years after the damage occurred. Early treatment is vital.
David Aiken
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