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, May 6, 2013

Hand dryer stroke rehab

Research suggests more early sensation therapy is good for recovery. A simple solution here. Install a couple of jet engine air blast hand dryers in the therapy room. Dip your paretic hand in water and hold it under the air stream with no help from your good hand. Or use your good hand to grab your affected thumb and turn the palm upright and hold that under the air stream. You may need to get even more powerful models, the ones I used this weekend did not have enough power to overcome the spasticity in my fingers and straighten out my fingers.  An easily implementable idea that you can be a hero by suggesting it to your therapists. I love these and would stand for extra minutes getting more therapy after each bathroom break.

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