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, March 14, 2011

finger gloves and stroke rehab

Since I have spasticity in my finger flexors getting a glove on is usually an almost impossible task. During my canoe trip 3 years ago I ended up rubbing my left palm raw with a half-dollar size skin removal. After taping that up the trip leader asked if I had brought along paddling gloves, I had and for some reason I even brought the left glove. He proceeded to roll down the glove until the entry holes for each of the fingers was open. I then flattened my hand and started feeding each of the fingers into the holes. After much tugging and pulling we were able to get the glove on my hand. The trip leader related that he learned of this trick when he was a PCA for a CP patient. For the next 9 days I tried this and on 2 days I was able to even get it on by myself although when people helped it went much faster, I did have to be sitting down when doing this and alloting 15 minutes to accomplish it
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  1. Glynis JollyMarch 14, 2011 at 10:37 PM

    Many stroke survivors wear those gloves where the tips of the fingers show. It give better control of the fingers.

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