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.

Sunday, December 17, 2017

Cross country skiing

With most of the day available before my social connections, I got out my skiis, fishscale ones since they are slower and less likely to break. My beautiful wood ones - Asnes from Norway, are still packed in my storage locker in Minneapolis. I made it 100 yards down the trail before I turned around and went back for my AFO. In ungroomed trails my left ankle rolls a lot. Even with my AFO, keeping two long sticks pointed parallel to each other is difficult. This is more walking on skiis than skiing. I can't do the classic push off and glide anymore. The Fitbit registers about 30% less distance than actually covered, probably because of some minimal glide and no heel strike registering a step.
Managed not to fall, although had to plant the ski pole on the left side numerous times to keep from toppling that way.  The first year I lived here I managed to ski quite a few times, that led to my obsession to keeping branches and logs off the trails

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