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.

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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, October 6, 2015

The Daily Chore That Can Increase Mental Stimulation and Decrease Anxiety - Mindful dishwashing

Sounds like something our doctors could initiate in the next couple of days. But I bet this will never occur.
http://www.spring.org.uk/2015/10/the-daily-chore-that-can-increase-mental-stimulation-and-decrease-anxiety.php?
When done properly, the chore decreased nervousness by 27% and increased mental inspiration by 25%.
Mindful dishwashing can decrease stress and calm the mind, a new study finds.
People in the study focused on the smell of the soap, the feel and shape of the dishes to help them enter a mindful state.
Doing the dishes in a mindful way also increased the pleasurable feeling of time slowing down, the researchers found.
Mr Adam Hanley, the study’s first author, said:
“I’ve had an interest in mindfulness for many years, both as a contemplative practitioner and a researcher.
I was particularly interested in how the mundane activities in life could be used to promote a mindful state and, thus, increase overall sense of well-being.”
In the study 51 people were split into two groups.
One group did the dishes in their normal way — most likely while letting their minds wander to the usual anxieties.
The other group were encouraged to focus on the sensory experience of washing the dishes.
The mindful group showed a 27% decrease in nervousness.
They also reported a 25% increase in mental inspiration.
This was an impressive result given that people were only washing dishes for six minutes.
The study’s authors write:
“It is interesting to note that a task potentially construed as unpleasant or a “chore” can be experienced as reducing nervousness and being inspirational by simply shifting one’s approach to the task and quality of attention.
That mindfulness practices elevate mindfulness, encourage positive affect, and decrease negative affect is well established; however, that these changes were associated with the coupling of a mindful practice with an everyday task is a novel finding.”

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