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, May 1, 2011

The new wallet and stroke rehab

I was practicing compensation for years with my old wallet, a velcro closed one that I would manipulate with my right hand only. I resolved to start using recovery techniques involving my left hand. In order to force such techniques I purchased a new zippered wallet. This requires me to use my pinch grasp of my left hand while I zip it open and closed. Getting it into the left hand takes some time since I have the classic spastic stroke hand at times, thumb inside, fingers wrapped over thumb. This whole process has definitely slowed down my purchases. Earlier blog on life in the slow lane here:
http://oc1dean.blogspot.com/2010/09/stroke-rehab-and-life-in-slow-lane.html

And at a couple extra minutes a day of therapy, this doesn't come close to any form of massed therapy. So there is no scientific basis for me to do this, don't follow me unless your therapist can come up with a good reason.
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  1. Rebecca DuttonMay 1, 2011 at 7:55 PM

    Over the years this change will produce thousands of repetitions. The brain responds to things we do over and over. It sounds good to me.

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