Deans' stroke musings: Hot tub stroke rehabilitation

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.

Friday, February 20, 2015

Hot tub stroke rehabilitation

Last night was our monthly potluck and wine party based upon this wine school article;
Your Next Lesson: Langhe Nebbiolo
Between the 9 of us we polished off 5 bottles. Reasons here;

Red Wine Prevents Memory Loss

After most people left 4 of us entered the hot tub. This became a never ending rehab exercise. In order not to slip off the bench I had to force my spastic left leg to stay connected to the floor, while still holding the wine glass above the water. It was not a good idea to let my leg start wandering into other peoples spaces. The thermal stimulation was great for sensation. Even after two hours in the tub my bicep refused to relax and straighten out. Spasticity sucks big time.