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, October 19, 2011

Bedtime stroke therapy#1

As I go to bed each night I try to do some exercises. The current one is to lay my left arm at 90 degrees to my body(this forces my pectoralis to relax) and from the forearm pointing straight up, lower the arm to level or below the bed. It is hanging over the bed at this time. My first one takes a minute or so to accomplish because I have to verbally abuse my spastic bicep to stop behaving like a spoiled brat, getting his way all the time. I do between 25 and 50 a night. After that is done I work on just raising and lowering the forearm 4-6 inches, this goes much faster and I'll change the position in order to cover the full range of straightening the arm.. After that I try to position the arm so the pectoralis muscle is straightened out, this occurs by grabbing the spindles in the headboard and pulling the whole arm over my head, the arm is bent but the bicep spasticity was worked on earlier. This is called PMS(prolonged muscle stretch), posted about here:
http://oc1dean.blogspot.com/2011/04/prolonged-muscle-stretch-on-spastic.html

But nothing here has any scientific basis so don't even bother to ask your doctor or therapist about it. This comes from the do-it-yourself therapy proposed by Dr. Steven Wolf;
http://oc1dean.blogspot.com/2011/03/problem-solving-for-stroke-rehab.html

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