Use the labels in the right column to find what you want. Or you can go thru them one by one, there are only 29,372 posts. Searching is done in the search box in upper left corner. I blog on anything to do with stroke. DO NOT DO ANYTHING SUGGESTED HERE AS I AM NOT MEDICALLY TRAINED, YOUR DOCTOR IS, LISTEN TO THEM. BUT I BET THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET YOU 100% RECOVERED. I DON'T EITHER BUT HAVE PLENTY OF QUESTIONS FOR YOUR DOCTOR TO ANSWER.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
neuroplasticity and stroke rehab - easy vs. hard
I think we need to understand the difference here and educate our medical staff about this. Researchers absolutely need to focus on hard neuroplasticity rather than the easy way out of just finding ways to enhance damaged neuron recovery. What is easy neuroplasticity vs. hard neuroplasticity?. Easy would be the recovery of the penumbra or bleed drainage area. My OT told me I needed to do something 10,000 times in order to rewire. She might be correct for the easy stuff but the hard neuroplasticity I think may take millions of times because you need to find a new landing spot for those functions first. So realistically the first couple hundred thousand times there will be no movement bacause there is no connection at all. This is where stroke doctors are falling down on the job, they don't give people a damage diagnosis of penumbra vs, dead area and the various functions they covered. I think that would mean that therapists should have different protocols for damaged areas vs. dead. But what the hell do I know, my wife is a PT and she thinks I'm insane for thinking that I might know more than my medical staff. I made up the terms easy vs. hard. Pass it around, the hundreth monkey theory in action.
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