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, December 16, 2016

Fingerprinting again - spasticity is fun

I'm starting a new contract Jan. 3 with the State of Arizona, Department of Motor Vehicles. Fingerprinting required again. Normally the person doing the fingerprinting is supposed to individually roll your finger on the ink pad and then roll them again on the card. I just told the guy I would have to do it all myself. The one time someone else tried to do it for me they didn't have enough strength to keep the finger straight and then were worried about breaking my fingers. The biggest problem is the four fingers in a group. I can't get all four fingers straight at the same time to get ink on and then I smear it all over the place trying to get the fingers on the card. After all that I have ink all over both hands, Washing the bad hand works pretty well, washing the good hand is extremely difficult, requires scrubbing which is impossible. This obviously is not an ADL since I never had any therapy on how to wash my hands, or dry them post-stroke. I would take a picture of the ink residue on my good hand but since there is no way to take a picture with my left hand that just won't occur.

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