Deans' stroke musings: What I wish I had been able to get post-stroke

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, March 11, 2016

What I wish I had been able to get post-stroke - finger massages

Spasticity for my left hand kicked in around 3-4 months. An OT once spent 15 minutes just pulling on and massaging my fingers like you would hand milk a cow. It was the best feeling and if I could have had that done daily I might have looser fingers today. Doing it by yourself has no where near the same results. Well, my ex made it quite clear I was on my own for therapy so I never asked her. Just recently a friend started massaging my hand like that, it's wonderful and hopefully not too late.