Mental imagery to win an Olympic medal

From the New Scientist issue of February 2016. 

'Take the British athlete Steve Backley, a bronze medalist in the javelin at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, who sprained his ankle just before the 1996 Atlanta games. He was on crutches for weeks, so he trained by imagining the perfect throw over and over again. He won silver that year.'

Now with ANY BRAINS AT ALL IN STROKE, we would have had that created into a protocol for survivors. But we don't have two functioning neurons anywhere in stroke leadership. 

You are completely on your own to figure out your recovery. Your medical staff has abdicated responsibility for anything to do with your recovery. Have they ever given you anything exact on what to do to recover?  Obviously not.