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

problem solving for stroke rehab

This comment from a rehabilitation stroke expert pretty much follows what I am trying to accomplish.
http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2010/04/12/13560141.html
Stroke patients need to rely more on their own problem solving to regain mobility, says a leading international expert on stroke therapy. Dr. Steven Wolf, a rehabilitation stroke expert and professor at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.
This one contradicts everything you are taught, that you need to rely on your medical staff for what to do. And I probably should tell you to discuss this line of circular reasoning with your doctor and see which one of you starts screaming first.
Good luck, as my wife once said to me, You're on your own now.
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  1. LindaMarch 15, 2011 at 4:10 PM

    My therapy has been very much dictated by my individualized personal therapy goals under the guidance of my occuptional therapist and I totally worked my heart out. I am just starting to realize exactly how fortuate I have been.

    The article cited is referrining under usage of Extremity Constraint-Induced Therapy.

    I was so scared and upset by having my "good hand" out of commission for months there with the growth on my finger, but at this point I think it is the best thing that could have happened to me. I have pretty good use of all 10 of my fingers now.

    My therapist commented that she had been pretty sure I would make great progress when she realized I was having a severe shot of pain when I touched anything with my right hand. Said it would not be considered ethical to give people a zap of pain when using their good hand in order to force them to use the weak hand... but predictable that it would be very effective. (constrain as opposed to pain? hmmmmm probably a lot better compliance too)

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  2. oc1deanMarch 17, 2011 at 3:57 PM

    Negative reinforcement didn't work for me but that might have been because it was only a week.
    http://oc1dean.blogspot.com/2010/09/negative-reinforcement-as-stroke.html

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