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.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Zipper ties

This is one of the few areas where I allowed compensation to take place.  Tying a tie right now would require me to be able to hold my bad left hand close to my neck, not possible due to tricep spasticity. My fingers will not stay open unless I am laying them on a table.  I have no individual finger movement yet.  3 strikes and you are out.  I don't wear ties very often, last time at a funeral and my best friends wife tied it for me. I have a couple of great ties back in storage in Minneapolis. M.C. Escher and Looney Tunes, both from my daughter. These ties look exactly like regular ties, the tail is essentially a zipper than separates at the knot to create a loop for your head. You pull  the tail down and the zipper joins shortening the loop to snug it around your neck.  Two hands are almost needed to accomplish that but I use my spastic bad hand to clamp onto the tail and pull it down.

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