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, June 24, 2013

8 Ways to Ease Stroke Recovery

My take on them or read the link from Everyday Health. They make it sound so easy.
http://www.everydayhealth.com/stroke-photos/ways-to-ease-stroke-recovery.aspx#/slide-1

1. Practice Yoga for Stroke Recovery

Yes, its great, but be careful.
How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body

2. Get Care After Stroke With Hand Therapy

This sounds exactly like what Margaret Yekutiel wrote in the book Sensory Re-Education of the Hand after Stroke in 2001.

3. Listening to Music Fights Depression During Stroke Recovery

The reason for music listening is not to fight depression but to facilitate recovery.
http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/131/3/866
Music listening enhances cognitive recovery and mood after middle cerebral artery stroke
http://www.therapytimes.com/content=0402J84C48968A84406040441
Music Therapy Speeds Post-Stroke Recovery
music therapy
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35502970/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.epsychology.us/rhythm-of-life-music-shows-potential-in-stroke-rehabilitation/
http://hubpages.com/hub/Music-Therapy-Healing including Kenny Rogers, I couldn't have handled this. Ask your doctors if you can listen to music to make sure it doesn't have negative side effects. 

 

4. Walk 6,000 Steps for Stroke Recovery

It probably took me 2 years before I could do that length.

5. Try Art Therapy for Recovery After Stroke

Anything that you are interested and involved in will help.

6. Involve Family Members for Better Stroke Recovery

I wish.

7. Consider Acupuncture as Part of Stroke Recovery

No,no,no. Acupuncture has no proven results. Quoting ancient use does not mean it is effective.

Acupuncture is a theatrical placebo: the end of a myth - DC's Improbable Science

 

8. Join a Recovery Support Group for Care After Stroke

But it has to be a group that actively plans outings, intellectual discussions. Run away from those groups that are, 'Oh woe is me', or complain all the time

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  1. Elizabeth, John, Jack, and LukeJune 24, 2013 at 6:37 PM

    #6 LOL. Either they involve themselves or they are OUT!! That was my experience, mostly everyone was out for not being involved or supportive.I'm much happier with my smaller more significant circle.

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