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.

Friday, July 19, 2013

Winnipeg day 1

Wednesday - Even with our best intentions we didn't get driving until 9am. Jammed 4 bicycles onto the back rack, filled up the huge Thule carrier on top and crammed everything else for 4 people into the back of the Subaru Forrester.

I got the left back seat, great for therapy, alternated between wedging the left hand between the door pillar and the seat in front of me, trying to stop the damnable bicep spasticity. Or  getting the left hand onto the grab bar above the window, I spent 20 minutes failing at that, could not get the fingers open at the same time as I got the hand up to the bar. Finally asked my friend for help, just holding my arm up was enough to get the fingers around the bar. I then spent the next 45 minutes swinging my elbow to the left and just holding it there. And clasping the bar so my hand didn't fall off. No rest on any car trip for me. 5 hours to the Canada border, no problems entering. Another 2.5 hours to the Birds Hill Provincial Park where the camping and concerts are. We are in the quiet campground as compared to the festival campground where  music and drumming go all night. We meet our Maine friend who is already there, with 6 live lobsters for dinner tonight.

 
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