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.

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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, January 10, 2012

Bowling for therapy

A stroke group in Minneapolis has a weekly outing. We get 8-12 people there every Friday. A few of us can walk up to the line to bowl, some bowl from a standing position at the line. We even have a wheelchair user who rolls up to the line where he stands up and someone hands him his ball. No ramp use for any of us. Last week he got a little too vigorous on one of his releases and did a slow motion fall at the end. It only took about 6 survivors to get him back in his chair. The alley even lets us use our own tennis shoes to bowl so we don't have to practice tying the rental shoes with separate hands. One other guy stepped onto the lane a few weeks ago and found out exactly how slippery they are, bruising his affected hand. I've been doing pretty good, 2 weeks ago a 180, last week a 190, this week I'm expected to hit 200 --- No Pressure, the organizer tells me thats the best ever bowled in this group. >:roflmao:
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  1. LindaJanuary 11, 2012 at 1:20 AM

    Woo hoo! Go Dean!

    Sorry for everyone getting hurt, but kind of nice as a stroke survivor to get to go around telling people you are suffering from athletic injuries suffered during competition. That should give people something to think about!

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  2. Marcelle GreeneJanuary 11, 2012 at 1:39 AM

    Love the imagery of the slow motion fall and all the survivors working to get him back in his chair. I can't imagine trying to bowl. My back hurts most of the time already from walking so twisted!

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  3. oc1deanJanuary 13, 2012 at 9:29 PM

    Not that good this week. 125,137,112

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