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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.

Monday, July 11, 2011

Biting flies and stroke rehab or mosquitos

This is one of those off the wall posts. While resting between sessions of tree cutup work, I would dangle my left arm over the arm rest and rest it on the ground. My reason is to let my arm muscles know they can relax but opportunistic flies would come by and give me painful bites on the arm and hand or just go straight through the sock If I had a really poor case of sensation this could be a wonderful therapy for reconnecting the pain receptors in the brain. For a longer term one you could try the scratching produced by mosquito bites. When I would go camping I would have to wear a mitten on my left hand to protect it from mosquito bites.
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  1. Grace CarpenterJuly 12, 2011 at 9:11 PM

    I try to scratch bites with my right (affected) hand. It's not very effective. But who knew that one day I would see mosquitoes as a therapy tool.

    -Grace

    http://myhappystroke.blogspot.com

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  2. oc1deanJuly 13, 2011 at 12:50 PM

    I hadn't considered the movement therapy. Besides the fine motor skills needed to scatch a single bite there is also the fast slapping needed to kill them on the good side of your body. Ask your therapist to be put into a mosquito room for therapy purposes and see what the response is.

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