Deans' stroke musings: Physical coffee rehab

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, May 29, 2015

Physical coffee rehab

To get my quota of daily coffee at work I have to be able to use this style of lever press pot with my spastic left arm. As long as no one is standing to the left of me I can do this, it looks awful, the synergies involved are every single muscle in my arm, hand, left leg, and left side core. The main problem is that only getting 3-4 cups a day does not count as high repetitions. The other style of press pot with the plungeable button I can't use. I can't coordinate my fingers into a tight enough circle to press the button down. There is absolutely no way I can put a coffee cup(hard or disposable) into the left hand and have any hope of success. The disposable ones would be immediately crushed, the hard ones would tip to the right from spasticity. This is an important ADL, as such there should be a effective stroke protocol for this recovery.