Deans' stroke musings: ‘Thumbells’: Network provider develops dumbbells for your thumb

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.

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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, August 2, 2013

‘Thumbells’: Network provider develops dumbbells for your thumb

Your hand therapist should be able to create an exercise protocol for you to bring back your thumb movements.
The Fox news report here;
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/08/02/thumbells-network-provider-develops-dumbbells-for-your-thumb/
This would first require my therapist to cure the spasticity in my thumb so it can actually straighten out. This is great, killing two birds with one stone, fixing spasticity and getting my thumb to move correctly again. Where is the research that proves it can be done?

This may be tongue-in-cheek
for this company but very serious for us. Ask your therapist exactly how to recover your thumb for texting. Do not accept, 'I don't know' for an answer. Because previous survivors never put their therapists on the spot as exactly how to recover we are in the current situation that only 10% fully recover.