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.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Stroke rehab at the coffee machine

And finally some useful therapies rather than all this high-faluting doctor and researcher stuff.
At work we have free coffee machines, they are about chest high and I usually visit them twice each morning to get the wake-up quota of caffiene. They grind their own beans for each cup so it takes about a minute to fill your mug. I take my left arm/hand and place it on the top of the machine in order to stretch out the bicep and pec muscles. Currently there is no way I can get the arm up there by itself. It stays there for maybe 2 minutes at a stretch, 2 fillups for my mug. I know this isn't much as far as massed practice is concerned and there definitely would be no research showing this to be useful for anything. But because we survivors are left completely on our own we have to come up with our own therapy protocols. Do not do something like this without your doctors ok.
Posted by at
Labels:

1 comment:

  1. Rebecca DuttonApril 11, 2011 at 3:50 PM

    I also prefer to space my exercises out over the whole day. I can't stay motivated if I pack my exercises into a long session I have to find space for in my schedule. I want to maintain the physical gains I made in rehab, but I'm not willing to make my life revolve around therapy until the day I die.

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)