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Meet Know Stroke Founder David Dansereau,MSPT,CAPS
-This is The 'Why' For David's Latest Book-
That’s the issue at heart of the latest release from Amazon Best Selling Author, David Dansereau, whose 30+ year career in healthcare as a physical therapist and nutritionist, and 18 years of work in stroke advocacy and survivorship has inspired his best work to date. His playbook provides a roadmap for those left abandoned after a stroke, like David experienced first hand. Having a stroke at 39, while married with 3 young kids under 7, and owning his own physical therapy practice spiraled David's and his family's life out of balance and left him feeling lost and alone.
That's when David took action. While advocating for better resources, collecting evidence-based research and tools while hacking his own stroke recovery in the home David journaled every step of it along the way and on his blog. In addition David added deep dive research from industry experts with nearly 100 Know Stroke Podcast insights as show cohost. Along with his clinical experise as a consulting physical therapist, and own journey as a patient navigating stroke, he now offers up his latest and final leg in his journey, his book Closure After Stroke with the roadmap and advocacy playbook he built on stroke.
Closure After Stroke delves into the common problem of what happens after discharge, why feeling "alone and abandonded" affects so many survivors and care partners in the current stroke care model. How nearly all healthcare systems get it wrong when treating stroke and supporting critical aftercare and longitudinal support.
Finally, as a survivor and stroke patient advocate David explores a deep blindspot for needed support. How national stroke associations need a wake up call to work with survivors again as their most valuable 'customer' instead of 'the product' and start to include the lived experiences of stroke in their programming and outreach to help vital non-profit stroke support organizations with needed financial support.
His recovery playbook maps out what the reader can do about their own recovery to take back control, take charge of their own health to achieve balance again to find a path forward. He believes a best life is still possible after stroke and he is sharing his plan to take action and realize what is possible.
-David's Quick Bio-
I am a stroke survivor and the founder of Know-Stroke.org - a community originally established for patients with stroke and PFO. My story was featured in the NY Times. I am a licensed physical therapist, nutritionist, author of Body in Balance and clinical PT consultant. Through my lived experience with stroke and all its' barriers, I have developed a keen interest and expertise exploring and researching the intersection of stroke rehabilitation and digital therapeutics to improve patient outcomes via my clinical consulting practice at SmartMovesPT. I'm in the process of launching my 2nd book, Closure After Stroke with my playbook for stroke recovery.
NOBODY WANTS TO FEEL LOST, ALONE OR ABANDONDED AFTER STROKE
Source: Recent Editorial Review of Closure After Stroke
