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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.

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Stroke rehab - mowing the lawn






We have a very small yard and a push reel mower that came with the house.  I try to mow the lawn  because its hard work, my walking is pretty lousy, my left arm will not stay straight enough to push the mower with any type of power. I usually have to wrap my right hand around my left hand, or when I get tired I just put the handle in my waist and push it that way.  You know when your OT told you that weight-bearing thru your arm/hand was good for you. If you were able to do that consistently you too could push a lawnmower or hold a bike handlebar straight.
If you look carefully you can see how politically incorrect this was/is:
A Savage brand, Super Chief model. Ok this company was started by Arthur Savage in Utica, New York as a firearms company.

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  1. LindaApril 15, 2012 at 12:06 PM

    yup Okay. I will stick with my power mower. Actually we are just at the point where the grass needs to have that spring raking. Want some exercise racking my yard?

    That brand name is indeed pretty shocking.

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  2. oc1deanApril 15, 2012 at 4:36 PM

    But Linda I don't have to worry about cutting my toes off or shooting rocks at someone standing nearby.. A 1/8 in. twig will stop the reel from spinning.

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