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.

Showing posts with label inversion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inversion. Show all posts

Monday, March 14, 2011

inversion of the ankle stroke rehab

I was wrong, the picture is actually inversion not eversion. Told you you shouldn't listen to the blatherings of an idiot.
This is something your PT should be explaining to you. But if you want to learn on your own read this.
Here is a link to an article that explains which muscles are used in inversion.
http://www.massagetoday.com/mpacms/mt/article.php?id=13429
This picture is a great example it came from http://www.rehabanklesprain.com/rehab-ankle-sprain.html?hop=31702 This is my main reason for wearing an AFO, if I wear solid shoes I can prevent inversion, going barefoot does not work. When I went cross-country skiing without an AFO I rolled my foot dozens of times barely missing a sprained ankle. Now I ski with an AFO even though my toes are squashed.


I am having major spasticity with that and an AFO is the common solution. I want to try to strengthen those muscles. Latest research has shown that exercising spastic muscles does NOT increase spasticity, contrary to what your therapists have probably told you. Exercise actually increases your control of the muscles reducing your spasticity.

Remember these are the blatherings of an idiot, talk to your therapist or doctor.
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