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.

Monday, September 20, 2010

Negative reinforcement as stroke rehabilitation

Negative Reinforcement - Does it Work?
In 2008 I took a week long canoe trip to the BWCA with Wilderness Inquiry trying to get in thousands of canoe strokes to recover that part. Since we moved everyday we had to go over 6-8 portages each day. I was not wearing my AFO because I kneel when I canoe so I was going over the rough portages with no brace on(which my PT scolded me about later) Because I was not able to clear the foot completely my foot would bang into rocks and tree roots hundreds of times each day. This turned out to be extremely painful since I had an ingrown big toenail on my affected foot.
My learning on this was that negative reinforcement was not enough to learn to lift my foot properly.
I also remember talking to and slapping my hand to get it to work, but that didn't work either. I guess the brain in my hand muscles does not understand English.
Don't try this at home.

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