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.

Monday, June 12, 2023

weighted blanket

 I've been trying to figure out how to passively stretch my affected left arm for years. When in Ecuador last January I had a heavy pillow I could use to keep my left arm straight when lying on my left side. But I wanted to lay on my back with my left arm straight out to my side and no amount of pillows could hold my arm down. I don't have a partner that I could bury my left arm under their pillow so I came up with something else. Bought a 15 pound weighted blanket and keep it rolled up with webbing straps to be able to lift it.  The first night I used it I lasted 30 minutes. The second night I lasted 5 minutes before my muscles screamed at me to stop. Will try again. I thought I would need the 25 pound blanket but 15 pounds was enough and I can always get more. I have no clue if this has any chance of working but I have to try something since my doctors and therapists left me with nothing to cure spasticity. COMPLETE FAILURE ON THEIR PART!



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