Deans' stroke musings: mittens

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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Monday, January 15, 2024

Doctor and therapist failure on wearing mittens

I can't get my thumb into the thumb slot, because the spasticity curls it into the palm and my right hand fingers can't get it pulled out thru the mitten fabric. Living in Minnesota at the time there was NO therapy on wearing either gloves or mittens in winter, which was a complete failure. Nobody even tried ANYTHING to cure my spasticity! With the left hand mostly in a fist due to spasticity getting it into a mitten takes some time and a lot of pulling. Forget any finger glove, they are impossible to get on.

Saturday, December 31, 2016

Mitten challenges

Now that is is getting colder out I have to start wearing a mitten on my affected hand, gloves are impossible. It is quite the challenge to get the spastic thumb into the thumb slot. I never had any ADL training on donning gloves or mittens. I was in Minnesota at the time so it would seem quite important even though my stroke was in May.

Saturday, January 3, 2015

Mitten stroke rehab

A friend noticed I complained about mittens so he handed me a couple of moosehide mittens and told me to try them on. The mostly balled up left fist made it thru the wrist so he gave them to me. Thanks Bret. The only problem is that after I get it on I spend the next 5 minutes pulling out my thumb from my palm and getting it into the thumb finger spot. But they are quite warm and it stays on my hand as compared to some of my other mittens that slide off after 10-15 minutes.