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, March 20, 2022

Why I no longer do any stroke rehab therapy

 The simple answer is life is worth living. I don't have time to do therapy, life intervenes and is much more fun.

My balance is excellent and my right arm/hand is extremely strong so I never feel in danger.

The more complicated reason is that I can do almost anything I want without having my left side working. 

I can easily drive anywhere,anytime, for any length of time, my turn signal extender allows me to signal turns easily and do hi/lo beams. 

I can walk for any length of time, the longest daily walk I did was 17 miles. Yeah the walking is wonky, if I'm walking fast the left leg is swung like a log. 

I can operate a chainsaw, yeah it's battery powered but good enough, I don't trust being able to control my gas one. 

Fishing is possible but requires a closed face reel with the handle on the right side. 

I can canoe or sea kayak, but probably not whitewater or Lake Superior anymore.

The things I can't do are minimal:

1.  Riding a two wheel bike, compensated by getting a recumbent tricycle.

2. Running 

3. Applying sucscreen or mosquito repellent to the good arm, wear long sleeve shirts.

4. Hunting; holding and aiming a long gun or shotgun will never be possible until my spasticity is cured.  I don't miss it, especially now that my dad is dead.

5. Hanging pants on hangers in closet; compensated by buying coat tree.



6. Sex; Missionary style sex just doesn't work anymore, or the Queens's throne, or the Mare, or the Swing(Look up Kama Sutra). Problems:


  1.  Fingers and thumb will not stay flat.

  2. Wrist collapses.

  3. Elbow collapses.

  4. Bicep spasticity pulls everything out of line.

    But compensations do work.

 I would try therapy again if it was a very specific protocol. I will never do guidelines again, they are totally worthless.

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