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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, April 23, 2012

Analysis of my walking for stroke rehab

I am currently wearing an AFO mainly because it feels safer and stops my foot from rolling. I will have to wean myself off  of it because I need to strengthen my ankle muscles in preparation for running. I have foot slap  and have absolutely no toe-off
From this site come the phases of walking, looking at foot placement.

 http://www.footeducation.com/biomechanics-of-walking-gait



As soon as I start lifting my foot into swing phase I have to counteract the spasticity that tries to invert my ankle. This means I can't concentrate on dorsiflexion and lifting my leg behind me with my hamstrings. Even with my AFO my toe drags on the ground wearing a hole in the sole. The AFO is actually making my gait worse.  This is not medical advice, I'm not worth listening to.
This diagram from NIH gives the complete cycle.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK27235/



One would think that PTs would be required to objectively map your gait to normal walking in order to correct your problems. Like this computerized gait analysis.
I posted videos on gait earlier here:
http://oc1dean.blogspot.com/2011/01/gait-and-stroke-rehab.html
Maybe watching them will trigger action observation.

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