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.

Monday, January 6, 2025

Hand splints

I've tried a couple of times to get spasticity out of my fingers. Failure on all counts!

Failure number 1:

I received the godawful hand built blue plastic hand and wrist splint for nighttime use that rotted after 3 years and never managed to keep my fingers straight no matter how I tried velcroing them down.

Benik w-700 hand splint:

It is pretty much impossible to put on one-handed, but this should have been given in the hospital to prevent spasticity in the hand from changing to contractures.

How to heat it first, then putting it on, one handed by yourself is quite difficult.

W700 Instructional Video for heating

How to put on the Benik W-700 splint

The pieces of the splint

On the hand

This one came from Temu, but can't find it on the site now. It is way too vigorous in opening the fingers and doesn't work on the thumb at all.
I expect your doctor and therapists to know EXACTLY what hand splint will relax your spastic fingers enough. Do they?