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- From: kaminski@netcom.com (Peter Kaminski)
- Newsgroups: misc.health.alternative
- Subject: Re: strokes
- Keywords: stroke brain
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.054529.19775@netcom.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 05:45:29 GMT
- References: <skcummi.725565060@vincent1.iastate.edu>
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- In <skcummi.725565060@vincent1.iastate.edu> skcummi@iastate.edu (Sheri
- K Cummings) writes:
-
- >Several months ago I heard, I think on a Paul Harvey report, about
- >something called epidermal growth factor, and how it is being administered
- >to older stroke victims. It had something to do with the creation of new
- >brain cells. Does anyone have any information on this process?
-
- You might find more information in sci.med -- also, misc.handicap deals
- with disabilities of all sorts, and can probably has information on treatments
- and also general tips for partial paralysis and aphasia.
-
- >He is currently unable to use his right arm and cannot communicate like
- >before because of aphasia.
-
- I remember hearing mention of a controversial therapy which I think was for
- aphasia (probably more severe than your nephew's) -- basically it was using
- a helper to watch for very subtle clues as to what the person with aphasia
- was trying to communicate via a typewriter or computer keyboard, and assist
- however was necessary -- moving limbs, fingers, whatever.
-
- Skeptics said the helpers were really the ones generating the
- communication, but proponents pointed to successes in helping aphasics
- to communicate on their own.
-
- Sorry, don't have any references.
-
- Pete
-