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.
But I think what you want is actually karma - yes, Landau should get his. What a pompous, unfeeling jerk.
ReplyDeleteYes, schadenfreude would definitely occur. It would be a party - you and I will provide the booze - at my house!
Don't forget me!!!!!!!!!!!! But make mine a Coke since I haven't had a drink in 30 years.
DeleteLandau should get and suffer spasticity for the rest of his life and see if his opinion changes.
I am still harboring hope and accumulating evidence that there is a difference between spasm and spasticity. I have been treating my spasms and my tendons are slowly releasing and my muscles reshaping. An arm or hand with the intense rigidity that you describe is in spasm. My understanding is that spasticity is velocity-induced -- meaning the tension occurs with movement. I plan to blog more about this in the New Year. The medical opinion expressed in this article once again shows a complete lack of understanding of this important difference. These medical types are simply overwhelmed by the hard work and patience it requires to treat us. They lump all the problems together under the wastebasket diagnosis of "spasticity," then throw us away.
ReplyDeleteThanks, I've given up on getting anything useful from doctors, I think intelligent survivors are much more likely to understand and describe the problem better.
DeleteThere is a huge difference in spasm and spasticity. One of the major differences is the time element involved. For me the spasms can last for hours, but spasticity element is measured in days and weeks of hypertonic muscle spasms to the point of any movement away from the spasm is both impossible and extremely painful.
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