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.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

showering and stroke rehab

There is no place that you can't do rehab.  I started out by using my right hand to hold my left hand and touch all the 4 in. square tiles in front of me. About 8 rows by 7 columns. This was to get both my bicep and pec to relax. I started this while still using the shower bench, I now do it while standing. Entering the shower I lift my left foot over  and back the 4 in. high threshold 10 times, trying to keep my lower leg hanging straight down. I hold my left hand under the spray trying to overstimulate the senses.

My most painful experience in the shower was when I was still using the shower bench.  I had an ingrown toenail on my left big toe. I sneezed and violently kicked the left foot into the wall six inches away. The big toe led the way, the tile wall was not fazed. It's amazing the speed you can generate in 6 inches, if I tried to do it willfully it would have been a love tap.

Ask your therapist for their recommendations in the shower, and make sure you ask for research proof that it is effective.
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