3 Common Reasons Why Your Home Rehab Isn’t Working and How To Fix It

It all boils down to the COMPLETE FAILURE OF YOUR DOCTOR AND THERAPISTS NOT HAVING EXACT 100% RECOVERY PROTOCOLS. They are trying to skate by on giving you fucking useless guidelines! So direct your anger at the correct point; your doctor and therapists!

 3 Common Reasons Why Your Home Rehab Isn’t Working and How To Fix It

Often after a stroke or other neurological injury the recovery process can continue long after traditional rehab and therapy end. Hopefully once you or your loved one returns home you attempt to adhere to a home exercise program geared at maintaining and increasing strength and range of motion. Unfortunately, life can get in the way, even with the best intentions, and self-directed home rehab can be less effective than we would like it to be. Therapists have identified 3 main reasons why your home rehab program isn’t giving you the results you want.

3 Common Reasons Why Your Home Rehab Isn't Working

1. You aren’t clear about what you “should” be doing. (The failure is your doctor and therapists)

Sometimes we can be overconfident in our knowledge of what exercises to perform, how to perform them and when to change the routine. Without clinical feedback it can be a constant challenge to know if what we are doing is helping or hurting or even making a difference at all. It’s all too common to be using outdated techniques, over/under-challenging yourself, targeting the wrong muscles or simply being poorly positioned during exercise.

2. You aren’t sticking with it(Well, WHY? There is no endpoint of 100% recovery with guidelines!)
Repetition and consistency are the keys to making progress. Unfortunately, when you are eager to get better it’s easy to fall into the trap of expecting to see progress overnight. Many home programs are abandoned because of lack of noticeable progress. Boredom is the other key reason for home therapy abandonment. Patients tend to adhere to home programs that show results and keep them engaged.

3. You aren’t using the right tools(The failure is your doctor and therapists not giving you the right tools.)

The Brain is the most important tool for neurologic injury recovery. Often people don’t know that they need to engage neuroplasticity to repair the brain - body connections which are affecting their muscle tone, strength and functional capacity after stroke. Neuroplastic changes require you to be alert, engaged, motivated. If you are disengaged, inattentive, distracted, or doing your exercises without thinking it is unlikely that your brain is capable of rewiring broken pathways.

So how can you fix it? Get savvy about what’s out there!

Once therapy ends, you and/or your caregivers may look for programs or products outside of the traditional rehab system to supplement your home programs. Devices such as the Neofect Smart Glove provide an interactive digital environment to modernize and demystify the home rehab process after stroke.

Many of the traditional pitfalls of at home therapy can be avoided with features such as digital progress reports delineating progress with remote monitoring provided by a live therapist. Gamified exercises that maintain engagement in repetitive tasks and optimize conditions ripe for neuroplastic change. With a unique algorithm system the smart glove adjusts the challenge level required in each activity to your personalized skill set in real time, ensuring that you are always working toward neuroplastic changes. Don’t get intimidated by home therapy programs. Start researching and learning about taking control of your recovery.

To find out more about the Neofect Smart Glove and other Neofect products please call us at (888) 623-8984 or email us at info@neofect.com.

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