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.
Dean, thank you so much for posting this. The more I read about people who have recovered, the more I am convinced that the aggressive pursuit of mobility is the key. Increase mobility, increase BDNF. I have been in touch with a survivor in CA who walks 10 miles a day and is trsining to walk a marathon. I was never a runner (my ballet teachers thought running was the devil's work) but I would love to walk the NYC Marathon someday. Are you running at all yet?
ReplyDeleteNo running yet, I'll probably try the slight downhill slope path. Downhill running would force you to get your feet in front of you or you fall. It will need to be some grassy field.
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