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.

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Poison ivy failures

 On my walks in the woods I have to pick up branches from the trails, sometimes having to kneel to cut thru them. I picked up some poison ivy on my right inner wrist and my right knee. I very seldom ever kneel on my left knee, almost impossible to get it to a kneeling position with the spasticity of my ankle.

Applying hydocortisone requires squirting it onto the top of my left hand, pulling my right sleeve up with my teeth, and then rubbing my right wrist over the cream on my left hand.  Luckily it is not weeping.  My left hand is pretty much useless for anything at all. My occupational therapist at three weeks gave me my prediction for recovery of that hand.   'According to research, non-use at three weeks likely means it will never recover.' And she was an excellent occupational therapist. Will have to look into mirror therapy now.

With a useless left hand it is impossible to take a picture of my right wrist.

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