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.

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Cribbage

This would be an easy way to get patients to socialize and work on cognition. I think it was Peter Levine who mentioned that the amount of actual therapy each day while in the hospital was appallingly low. Counting, adding, multiplying, recognition of different suits and cards.  Cheap too. All because I've joined a meetup group that plays cribbage every couple of weeks. An added bonus is that its held at a microbrewery. Beer, beer and more beer, I'm working on preventing that dementia.
Card holders available here;
Playing Card Holder Curved Wood Set of 2 

Manual shuffler available here;
Manual Card Shuffler 

Why hasn't your hospital thought of this? Do they even think at all?
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  1. LindaJanuary 6, 2014 at 9:35 PM

    hey dean... in my training to be a Recreation therapist they are recommending we get a food handlers permit and also get a permit for handling and distributing booze. I think your wish is coming true,,,, hospitals where we are ..... playing cribbage, lol

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  2. J.L. MurpheyJanuary 7, 2014 at 3:09 PM

    I used to love playing Cribbage. Now not so much. I could glance at my hand and know immediately what to keep and what to throw, and counting without thinking. Now it takes me so long to add each cards, it's hard work. That's not to say I don't play because I do to retrain my brain.

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