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.

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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, March 29, 2020

Right side car entry

Drove in my car down to Florida in Feb. with a friend.  This meant that I got to ride passenger at times. That right side car entry brings a whole different set of problems, none of which were even practised in the car in the therapy department. Lifting the left leg in is not a problem but the left arm/hand stays to the left side of the left leg, Which then slides under my left butt cheek as I try to get my right leg in. My compensating solution is to sit on the seat, making sure my left arm is in my lap as I pivot and bring both legs in. This works for cars but while in Florida our hosts had a Chevy Silverado pickup which means grabbing the handle on the door post to lift myself up, get my left butt cheek on the seat, grab my left arm while trying not to fall out of the pickup, put it in my lap and swing both legs in. Nothing in this was ever mentioned, modeled or tried in therapy. I'm assuming car entry is an ADL and thus should have EXACT PROTOCOLS on how to do that.

Or the left side problems described here:

Drivers side car door closing

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