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, June 9, 2013

Pumping gas stroke therapy

I know this is not part of any ADLs, but I incorporate daily tasks into my therapy protocol. Since everything is now self pumping I have to make sure as I put the nozzle into the filler hose that I am standing on the correct side. I've done it wrong several times and looked at the hose hanging 2 feet off the ground and telling myself, no good will come from trying to step over it. I have to be on the right side in order to get my left hand on the nozzle grip by prying my hand open and then getting the wayward fingers onto the lever. Several times during filling the nozzle shuts itself off, I don't have the strength or reaction time to prevent that, but it does give me more chances to practice squeezing my complete hand.  Hand grips I have are too strong to work successfully.  At the end I have to pry my hand off.
And I know this is only a couple of minutes every two weeks but if you don't think of ways to incorporate your affected side every time you can recovery can't happen. 
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