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, December 15, 2012

Sleep is not just for sleeping - stroke rehab time!

When I was visiting my friend in Utah I got to sleep on one of those 6 in. thick air  mattresses. This was great for 3 reasons.
1. The bed was pushed against the wall trapping the blankets there. This allowed me to roll over fairly easily since I didn't need to worry about pulling the covers off.
2. I could lay on my stomach and place my left arm over my head stretching out my lats for an extended period of time.
3. It forced me to rise from the floor to standing, thus reducing my risk of mortality. I would like to live another 40 years.
There is absolutely nothing here that is clinically proven so don't do it!
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  1. barbpolanDecember 17, 2012 at 9:12 AM

    ditto!

    I especially like stretching my affected arm out of the blankets and over my head when I get too hot under the covers. Lowering it forward down to the bed makes me happy too, although it sometimes gives up and falls for the final 6 inches.

    Let's hear it for 24/7!

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