Deans' stroke musings: Cross country skiing

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, February 1, 2019

Cross country skiing

Normally I would rejoice at doing this. But to do this now requires long underwear to prevent the AFO chafing. The AFO is required to prevent ankle rolling, which seems stupid considering all the difficult terrain I am constantly walking on. I spent two hours walking on my fish scale skiis since they iced very badly preventing any glide at all. With the AFO getting a glide is almost impossible. My beautiful waxable wood Asnes skiis have never been used post stroke. They are too fast and the grip on the snow is not as effective for pushoff. I did this the day prior to the deep freeze. Only fell at the very end trying to clear a branch from the trail. Normally I would spin on my back until I got the legs positioned. Now I just remove the skiis and very laboriously get up. The AFO does an excellent job on making getting up with it almost impossible. One handed poling challenges your balance constantly. I can do herrinbones up hills but have to be very careful I don't slip since I can't recover one handed.