Well fuck, once again your doctor has absolutely nothing to do for your stroke recovery. As evidenced by the prescriptions they write; E.T(Evaluate and Treat) to your PT, ST and OT. Aren't you glad you are paying them for doing nothing?
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/exercise-might-be-the-magic-bullet-for-stroke-survivors-but-how-do-you-get-them-to-do-it
Lynne Stacey is a physiotherapist who has spent a good part of her
career working with people who have had strokes, from infants to
seniors.
But she didn’t recognize she had had a stroke herself one
day in December 2015, just as she was getting ready to teach a fitness
class in a swimming pool. Stacey couldn’t move her arm or leg.
“One of my clients called 911,” she said.
Within
an hour and a half, Stacey underwent endovascular treatment to pull a
blood clot from her brain. She was a motivated survivor. Within a few
days, thanks to a vigorous exercise regime of her own design, she had
function back to her arm and leg and was playing the piano again.(Whoopee, a complete outlier, that won't help you recover since there is no protocol to follow.)
“We
know it improves brain health, balance and strength,” said Stacey, now
80 and still working as a physiotherapist. “One of the challenges is
that people get good rehabilitation in the hospital and in
physiotherapy. Then they’re back at home.”
Researchers
have recognized both the truth of this and the difficulty in connecting
stroke patients with good-quality exercise programs. That’s why Brain
Canada and Health Canada have given a team headed by Ottawa Hospital
senior researcher Dr. Ian Graham $1.2 million to “translate” this
knowledge into action in communities across Canada.
More than 80
per cent of people who have a stroke will survive, and they are more
likely to live longer than ever before. But this means they are also
more likely to live with chronic disability.
Even though survivors
make initial gains in hospital and rehabilitation, research shows they
lose that when they return home and become more disabled as time goes
on.
It doesn’t have to be that way. Brain imaging studies show
that stroke patients recruit undamaged brain networks to help restore
lost functions. But neurons have high energy needs and the brain has a
limited energy supply. Exercising enhances the brain’s connectivity and
there’s strong scientific evidence that aerobic exercise helps survivors
recover motor skills, and relieves and improves cognitive function.
“It’s not a magic bullet, but it’s pretty close,” said Graham.
In
2016, the Heart and Stroke Foundation’s Canadian Partnership for Stroke
Recovery identified exercise programs as a priority area for knowledge
translation through a committee made up of people who have had strokes,
caregivers, stroke recovery experts, health-care providers and
policy-makers.
“We see the need to scale up evidence-based
programs. There’s a lot of things we know work, but we have to get
there,” said Katie Lafferty, CEO of the foundation’s Canadian
Partnership for Stroke Recovery.
But changing human behaviour is not straightforward.
“Our
motto is, ‘If you don’t build it, they can’t come,’” said Graham, who
is a medical sociologist with expertise in knowledge translation.
Many
stroke survivors have little exercise history or are afraid of injuring
themselves. They may not have the money to pay for classes, or need
transportation or a caregiver. Fitness instructors may be reluctant to
offer the programs.
There may be barriers but there are also
solutions, said Graham. The answers will be different in every
community. It could be enlisting a municipality’s recreation department,
getting in contact with a charity or local foundation or offering a
pay-as-you-can option.
“Our job is to pull all the pieces together,” he said.
“Some
people want to take classes with other people who have had strokes,”
said Stacey. “Other people want to be in a regular class. Others don’t
want to exercise in public. They can do it in their own living room
through a video-conference.”
By mid-winter, Graham and his
colleagues hope to identify between nine and 12 communities from remote
rural towns to large cities to run two cohorts of 12-week exercise
classes. They will use three promising exercise programs used in cities
across Canada for people who have had strokes — the Fitness and Mobility
Exercise Program, the Fit for Function program which is offered by the
YMCA in the Hamilton area, and the Together in Movement and Exercise
program offered in some community centres in Ontario and B.C.
The
researchers will also track whether the programs are able to enroll
people, whether there is any improvement and whether the participants
are satisfied. Then they hope to translate the strategies each of those
communities uses to help other communities make the connections they
need in order to get their own stroke exercise programs up and running.
Knowledge
translation is different from a clinical trial, which seeks the answer
to the question of whether a particular drug or treatment was
successful, said Graham.
“This is about how to get people to think about decision-making.”
The
resulting “toolkit” is slated to be completed in about three years and
will be available through open-access for anyone who wants it. It must
be relevant, useful and usable to any group that wants to start an
exercise program anywhere in the country. The lessons learned have the
potential to benefit stroke survivors all over the world, said Lafferty.
“We
can help the community think through the barriers,” said Graham. “You
can’t dictate what way to do it. People are resourceful when it comes to
figuring out what they want to achieve.”
jlaucius@postmedia.com
Use the labels in the right column to find what you want. Or you can go thru them one by one, there are only 28,983 posts. Searching is done in the search box in upper left corner. I blog on anything to do with stroke.DO NOT DO ANYTHING SUGGESTED HERE AS I AM NOT MEDICALLY TRAINED, YOUR DOCTOR IS, LISTEN TO THEM. BUT I BET THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET YOU 100% RECOVERED. I DON'T EITHER, BUT HAVE PLENTY OF QUESTIONS FOR YOUR DOCTOR TO ANSWER.
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.
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