Deans' stroke musings: Immediate arm stroke 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.

Thursday, May 5, 2016

Immediate arm stroke rehab - What Would Dean Do?

Since I am not medically trained, do not do anything about this, especially telling your doctor you want to follow this. But ask your doctor EXACTLY how her/his protocol for arm recovery stacks up against this idea.
Upper arm recovery is dismally low
This would seem to be a likely case of 'Use it or lose it'.
People recover walking because they attempt it a lot..
In order to use the affected arm a lot you need to force use to transport your body to where you want to go. The current wheelchairs require either two usable arms and hands to efficiently move that wheelchair. Or two usable legs/feet. The solution is lever powered wheelchairs. You are going to have to contact your stroke department NOW to maybe get them in stock in 5-10 years. If you don't have enough hand grip strength you could velcro your hand to the lever.