Deans' stroke musings: Sit to stand therapy

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.

Friday, July 19, 2013

Sit to stand therapy - Winnipeg

You can only have foldable chairs that are only 24 inches high, called backpack chairs. This means that the front edge of the chair is only 8-9 inches off the ground.

Like this RIO backpack chair;

Normal people just put both their hands on the armrests and pull/push themselves to an upright position and start walking. With my left arm spasticity I have a different method, it involves using just my right arm to pull my butt forward until the right butt cheek is on the front bar, then either kick my left foot underneath me with my right foot or pull it under with my right hand. Reach under my butt with my right hand to push up with, don't use the right arm rest, that tips the chair. Then propel myself upwards mainly with my right leg. I used to short circuit this in past years my having one of my friends just yank me upwards. Then I stand in position for a minute or two until my legs feel uncramped from all the sitting. I do this dozens of times every day. Notice the attached pillow, I would sleep in it for some of the more boring concerts.