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, December 23, 2014

Jacket pocket insertion

I can't get my affected left hand into my jacket pocket without significant help from my good hand. Now that winter is coming on it becomes important to do this to keep the hand from freezing.  If the pocket slit is on the very side of the coat I can't get it in there no matter what I do.  Putting on a glove is impossible and a mitten works if the wrist opening is big enough for a clenched fist to get through. My thumb might be able to get pried into the thumb location.
Problems with pocket:
Elbow will not stay next to body due to spasticity.
Unable to pull arm straight back for the length of the forearm.
Unable to straighten wrist.
Unable to point all the fingers straight ahead.

There has to be a stroke protocol that could address this. I bet there are millions of survivors around the world that have this exact same problem. And yet there is no written documentation on how to train survivors to accomplish this. Sounds like an ADL to me.
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