Deans' stroke musings: Cross country skiing and stroke rehab 2013

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.

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Cross country skiing and stroke rehab 2013

I'm happy, putting on the AFO helped tremendously, of course looking at the skiis today I realized why I was rolling my ankle so much. There are heel plates with ridged metal pieces attached to the ski to grab your heel and keep it from sliding off the ski. Well my right ski is missing that heel plate and I was wearing that ski on my left foot. There are large L and R stickers on the skiis. 1 hour of skiing and I didn't even break a sweat. Three fallen trees about 1 foot off the ground to get over, I may have to get a larger pruning saw to cut them thru. At one spot there was an 18 inch rise over 4 feet and I spent twenty minutes tromping around before I succeeded in making it up.