Deans' stroke musings: fingernails

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.

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Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Clipping affected hand fingernails, approaching failure

I clip my good hand by placing the toenail clipper on the bathroom countertop, insert fingernail and use my chin to push the handle down and clip the nail. So far minimal cutting into flesh.

The affected hand is much harder, my wrist spasticity turns the hand/fingers down and away from my sight. This results in flesh being cut quite a few times. So far I haven't had to carry a clipper along with me and ask bar patrons to cut my fingernails, it would be well worth the cost of a beer. I do get a pedicure for my toenails every three months, maybe manicure?

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Fingernail clipping

This is one of the stupid things I have to do at work. I needed one of those rubber coated ones so it would stay on top of my knee as I used the underside of my desk to press the teeth together to clip the nail on my good hand. My problem now is that clipping the nails on my bad hand(left) is very problematic. My fingers will not lay straight no matter what position I put them in. If I get the clipper situated my wrist spasticity kicks in ruining the clipping. At least today I managed not to end up with bloody fingernails.
Sounds like something our therapists should have had to deal with thousands of times. Then there should be a therapy protocol for this somewhere. Send your therapist on a search.

Damn this Stroke.