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.

Monday, February 9, 2015

Coat removal stroke protocol

Absolutely no hits from Google or YouTube. I struggle every single time I need to remove my coat. Friends jump up and start pulling on the left sleeve, which usually works once my spastic curled fingers get past the cuff. To do this by myself I have to pull my left shoulder of the coat down, reach my left arm behind my back, walk to a wall edge and have my left arm against the corner, turn my body to the right, reach with my right arm behind my back, feeling for the left arm cuff, then pulling the coat off the left arm behind my back. This usually leaves my left arm stuck back there and I have to reach around and pull it back to my side so it hangs somewhat normally. I grab the right cuff with my teeth and pull the rest of the coat off.
I can't even remember the correct way to remove a coat anymore. For such a common ADL there should be hundreds of videos demonstrating this.
Coat removal videos are about painting.
Jacket removal videos are about yellow jackets.
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