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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, March 15, 2011

spasticity during sleep, does it exist?

I was asked by Peter Levine once if I thought I had spasticity while sleeping. I think my left calf is spastic during sleep, when I get up I have to immediately stretch it out before I can walk. This is really only provable when there is a quantitative measure of muscle spasticity I think when I wore a night splint those fingers also were spastic during the night. The gel Yoga toes I wore for awhile were uncomfortable after 5 hours so those toes were defintitely being spastic at night. What are your experiences?
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  1. Sara GMarch 16, 2011 at 12:10 AM

    I would say for myself, yes and no. I think it depends on the level or degree of spasticity you have, if that even makes sense. Some days I wake up and have to stretch my leg or arm, even hand sometimes. Other days I am fine and feel great which doesn't last too long. My hand twitches while trying to sleep and sometimes I have woke up to leg twitches/cramps.

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