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.

Friday, September 24, 2010

Stroke rehab for sensory input

My sensory cortex supposedly was not affected but is less than before so I am assuming that it was routed thru the motor cortex across the central sulcus to get to the correct nerve endings. And since the motor cortex is mostly dead I have to find a new pathway to those nerves. This is rather depressing that I have to do all this self-diagnosis myself. I take a fingernail brush and run it across my left hand. In the shower I hold my left hand under the shower spray. I haven't yet gotten to the thermal stimulation yet, that is dunking your hand in ice water alternating with warm/hot water.

A hot/cold session consisted of two alternating cycles performed five days a week for six weeks. The sessions lasted between 20 minutes and 30 minutes. Thermal packs were wrapped in towels, and applied to the patient's hand and wrist. The hot pack was 167 degrees Fahrenheit, while the cold pack was just below 32 degrees Fahrenheit.

A lot of these ideas came from Sensory re-education of the hand after stroke by Yekeutiel, Margaret.

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