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.

Saturday, January 11, 2014

Step by step rehab

Since there is no way I can complete functional movements, I have to break them down into small pieces. Then I'll have to hope that my brain has enough brainpower to connect those individual movements together into smooth functional ones. Today I had a several hour drive to meet Amy for lunch. This allows me to practice hours of spasticity reduction. When driving now I can place my left hand at the 7 o'clock position even when moving. I used to try to place it at 11 o'clock but that was only possible when stopped and I couldn't consistently keep the elbow locked straight.  Now I place my elbow on the gel pad glued onto the door rest, it mostly stays there, 6 inches away from my side. The wrist is only cocked at 10 degrees, the fingers have no grasping ability yet. I figure the arm out and wrist may take another 3-5 years before I'll be able to work on having the fingers clasp the wheel. I tried listening to the Egypt great courses on my computer but the speakers weren't loud enough to overcome the noise level when driving at 75 mph.  The straw in the coffee, along with cruise control allows me to consume vast amounts of coffee even while driving.


You will likely need to do the same type of thing for your recovery which goes against all the training your therapists get, which is to practice functional movements.

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