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.

Monday, May 6, 2013

More driving stroke rehab

Lots of time this weekend to get in hours of therapy. Don't try this without your doctors ok, you know how dangerous my ideas are. When I started driving it was 78 degrees out so I rolled down the window and hung my left arm out the window. At 75 mph you get lots of sleeve flapping and wind pressure against your skin. In 2 hours the bicep never completely relaxed. 2 hours later the temp was down to 58 degrees and I switched to placing my left hand on the 7 o'clock position on the steering wheel and my left elbow on the arm rest. The arm rest had been enhanced by velcroing a 1 inch thick gel pad to it to prevent the latissimus spasticity from pulling the elbow into my side. It was only 6 inches away but you have to start somewhere. This allows me enough control with my left hand so when I'm on cruise control I can switch cds or drink something. Drinks(even coffee) require a straw so I don't have to tip my head back and can quickly get my right hand back on the spinner knob even holding a drink. I got a turn signal extender installed($190) so I can now signal turns with my right hand. The spinner knob is at 4 o'clock and the turn signal at 2 o'clock so with the left hand providing some stability I can now signal lane changes on the interstate highway. On the way back I wore a wrist support so I tried to lay the arm on the window ledge and just hold it there without it falling off either inside or outside. That was not too successful. Only 13.5 hours on the way back, so I rolled in home around 2am. Don't even think of trying any of this stuff.

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