I really disagree with the blaming the victim for the fatigue in this article/research. Damn it, do your job and find a solution to post-stroke fatigue.
http://health.india.com/news/coping-with-life-after-a-stroke/
New research suggests that dreams of
returning to everyday life as it was before the stroke may contribute
to the patients’ experiences of fatigue and that it may be a help to
establish new routines instead of trying to regain old ones. ‘Having a
stroke can be a devastating experience, and those affected by one often
feel that their lives are turned upside down. For many patients, life
after a stroke is therefore about reestablishing life as it was before
the stroke. But this is very rarely possible and thus a source of
frustration for stroke patients,’ ethnologist Michael Andersen from
University of Copenhagen, said.
Andersen’s PhD thesis was carried
out in collaboration with a Danish hospital, where doctors found it hard
to find a correlation between the size or the impact of the stroke and
the individual experiences of fatigue. He located other potential
reasons for the fatigue than the patients’ brains – their everyday
lives. When interviewing the patients Andersen noticed that they no
longer related their fatigue to the same objects or actions as they did
pre-stroke. (Read: Blood pressure medications not beneficial after stroke)
‘In our everyday lives we link
fatigue with specific objects or actions which we hardly even notice; it
can be a bed or making a cup of tea in the evening. After a stroke,
many patients feel constantly fatigued without being able to locate it,’
Andersen said. According to him, locating fatigue in other objects and
actions than before can be a successful approach when trying to restore
an everyday life – not the same as before, but a completely new one.
(Read: Coming soon – A treatment to rehabilitate stroke patients?)
Andersen suggests
that stroke patients might learn to cope with their fatigue
(BULLSHIT, solve the damned problem)
if they – in
collaboration with their own doctor – learned to think of fatigue in
relation to specific objects or actions. This could frame the
patients’ fatigue so it does not become a phenomenon defining their
lives. (What a f#cking copout)
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