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.

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Stroke rehab - ice cream

And its even a valid therapy, at least according to me. Its been hot here and I wanted an ice cream treat at home, so I saw Ben & Jerry pints while shopping and impulsively bought several. After getting home I thought some more about it and realized I should have gotten ice cream sandwiches like last time. Recovery is buying normal food and figuring out how to use it, the ice cream sandwiches were compensating(bad idea). But therapy called and I responded. First problem to solve is to get the left hand open enough to grasp the pint, good thing there was a cover and it was still fairly hard. Finally succeeded even though the thumb position was bad. But the cold was great sensation therapy, sending a great amount of cold signals to my sensory cortex. Or in my case, trying to recreate the white matter pathways that underlie the sensory cortex. Then comes the grasping tightly enough to scoop out the ice cream.  Success!!!
Cherry Garcia was great and I still have a full pint of  Peanut Butter World. Thousands of repetitions of this could put on some serious weight. I'll still do it.
 Do not self prescribe this type of therapy without your doctors ok. You know damn well how much I think of stroke doctors.

3 comments:

  1. lol! I envy you. All I can do is put the container between my legs (sitting) and then scoop with my right hand; obviously compensating.

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  2. Although I have a fair amount movement, I still struggle with scooping ice cream (partly because my "good" hand is my left, which is still catching up with these new demands on it.) Breyer's is my favorite--it's squishy. Easier to scoop.

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  3. oooh I love ice cream!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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