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.

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Baby steps in biking#3 - stroke rehab

Once again, fully successful this time, only about 10 minutes and never got out of the parking lot. It requires vast amounts of mental processing because the dividing line between success and disaster is so fine that I have to continually calculate speed, lean, obstacles, cars, feet on pedals, left arm still on handlebar?.
A new learning; when braking, the affected foot-left needs to be on the bottom of the pedal arc, this allows the weight to be distributed evenly with no quick weight shifts as the feet come off the pedals.
An additional item to work on;
1. Buckling the helmet, currently a frustrating one-handed affair. The left arm will not stay up close to my chin - the same problem as not being able to hold a phone on my left hand. My fingers have no release capability so they would pull everything apart.

I'll keep trying.
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  1. barbpolanOctober 1, 2012 at 11:29 AM

    This is astonishing ... how wonderful that your craziness and persistence have paid off. Congratulations!

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