Deans' stroke musings: Clapping failure

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.

Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Clapping failure

I go to live music, mostly jazz, as often as possible. A major failure point is the total inability to use both hands to clap. One handed clapping against my thigh is ridiculous and quiet. I should be able to go to any occupational therapist in the world and have EXACT PROTOCOLS that will fix my hand.

Last night was at Red Cedar Spirits:

Randy Napoleon on guitar; Associate Professor of Jazz Guitar

at MSU(Michigan State University)

Rodney Whitaker on bass;Director of Jazz Studies at MSU(Michigan State University)

Eric Law; Outstanding Alto Saxophone at the Jack Rudin Jazz Championship

This is what my left hand looks like 5 seconds after opening it with my right hand. Wrist and finger spasticity have completely kicked in making clapping impossible