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 13, 2010

stroke rehab with a recreational sea kayak

I have my own 17 foot fiberglass Eddyline Raven sea kayak but currently it is impossible to get it down from my garage, loaded onto my car and then launched into a lake. I rented a sit-on-top recreational kayak from a local park district. Completely different from a regular sea kayak. Good thing I could try one out because they are not worth buying. You are 4-6 inches above the water rather than having your butt below the waterline. This makes for an extremely tippy ride. I had to be constantly engaged in staying upright. This was approx. a 12 foot boat so it had no rudder and since my paddling it not close to even I ended up going in a large circle to the right. I think I paddled for about 20 minutes, by then fighting my spastic muscles had exhausted my left arm. I know this is supposed to be mainly torso rotation but just holding my arms up was enough to tire me out.
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