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, April 10, 2016

Challenges to walking and balance

In order to recover to close to what I had before I have to extremely challenge myself. I needed 12,000 steps yesterday to get to 70,000 steps for the week. So I went for a walk in the natural area behind the apartment complex.Knowing that there was some water on the trails I put on my Wellies.
The first 100 yard slog thru 6-8 inches of water was great because the skim of ice was thick enough that I had to lift each foot completely out of the water. After that I decided that maybe a walking stick would be good. The following pictures show the couple hundred yard stretch of flooded trail. Only got to 10 inches deep, which was about the maximum my 16 inch Wellies could take without slowing down to a crawl. Managed 8600 steps in an hour and a half which is way below my 5-6000 pace per hour on dry ground.

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2 comments:

  1. UnknownApril 12, 2016 at 12:12 AM

    I think I see a squatch in that first picture.

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  2. oc2deanApril 12, 2016 at 2:14 AM

    That would be great, incentive to learn how to run again.

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