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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.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

spasticity exercise

My therapists also did not recommend exercising spastic muscles but that is an incorrect assumption now. here is an article on it about CP which i think also applies to stroke spasticity.
http://www.ncpad.org/exercise/fact_sheet.php?sheet=107&section=813
This book also reports on the controversy.
Motor control: translating research into clinical practice
Anyway, now I try to exercise every muscle on my affected side even if the form doesn't look good.

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  1. Glynis JollyFebruary 8, 2011 at 6:32 AM

    How long has it been since your therapists have had any updated classes?

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  2. oc1deanFebruary 8, 2011 at 9:20 AM

    I am the therapist now, you know do-it-yourself MD, and you should never treat yourself. The last time I saw a therapist in a clinical setting was 2.5 years ago.

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