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.

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Tossing the AFO again

In 2009 I went on a 3 week canoeing  trip where I didn't wear my AFO at all due to needing to kneel to paddle. Getting home I continued without it.  And for 15 months all was well  until I tripped coming out of an elevator. My wife and daughter insisted I go back to wearing the AFO. I did. After the 2 mile bog walk in June I resolved to ditch the AFO again. The first day the foot and ankle felt pretty floppy. Since then the ankle has been feeling stronger. My new workplace doesn't have elevators so I'm hopeful this will be the end of using it.  Don't listen to me on such items, your doctor/therapist always have the final say on starting/stopping therapy.

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  1. Barb PolanJuly 2, 2012 at 7:39 AM

    Many of my medical professionals were unwilling to suggest that I go without my AFO; but then I started and went without for about a year. I started by using it only inside my house, then just up and down our staircase. Eventually, I went out "into the community," without it, at the suggestion of my physiatrist. I couldn't go without it, though, on uneven ground - beach, lawn, loose gravel, or cobblestone - until I got the Bioness L300. Not walking on uneven ground was just not acceptable in my life, so I need the help; braceless is again limited to being inside my house.

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