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Have you heard of lateropulsion ?
While the problem is common, lateropulsion is still severely under recognized and under assessed around the world.
This article tells you more about it.
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The hidden struggle of lateropulsion in stroke survivors
Lateropulsion, a clinical condition which results in the body leaning to one side, affects about half of all stroke survivors.
ARNI training for stroke survivors; as part of the trainers assessment day. New trainers were assessing and training stroke survivors as part of their course. The slide show mainly features Lisa King and Julie Maria Smith; both stroke survivors and friends. It was Lisa's first ARNI session and by the end of it she could get herself safely down to the ground and up again (a key ARNI technique).
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As you probably know very well, the impairment of upper limb function significantly impacts daily life quality and necessitates enhanced neurological control. This poses a formidable challenge in the realm of rehabilitation due to its intricate nature.
An interesting 3-week rehabilitation monitoring experiment: "Muscle Synergy Plasticity in Motor Function Recovery after Stroke," has just been published in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. It was conducted to assess the motor function of stroke patients at different stages of rehabilitation based on muscle synergy performance.
It showed that high-functioning patients were superior to low-functioning patients in terms of motor function plasticity towards healthy individuals. Moreover, there was a high positive correlation between muscle synergies and clinical scale scores in high-functioning patients, and the significance gradually emerged with treatment, highlighting the potential of muscle synergy plasticity as a valuable tool for monitoring rehabilitation progress.
The potential of this study was also demonstrated for elucidating the physiological mechanisms underlying motor function reconstruction within the central nervous system.
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Sheng, J. Wang, G. Tan, H. Chang, Q. Xie and H. Liu, , doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2024.3389022., doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2024.3389022.
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A review in the Journal of Advanced Nursing (Task-oriented training in rehabilitation after stroke: systematic review) was conducted in Holland by Resnick et al (42 papers in the final dataset, including nine systematic reviews) to provide an overview of the evidence in the literature on task-oriented training of stroke survivors and its relevance in daily nursing practice.
It revealed that studies of task-related training showed more benefit for functional outcomes compared with traditional therapies. Active use of task-oriented training with stroke
survivors will lead to improvements in functional outcomes and overall health-related quality of life.
The conclusion was that generally, task-oriented rehabilitation proved to be more effective and that many interventions are feasible for nurses and can be performed in a ward or at home. Further, that nurses can and should play an important role in creating opportunities to practise meaningful functional tasks outside of regular therapy sessions.
This paper is now 15 years old!
The evidence has been there for so long, but time and resources render this often so difficult for nurses to do in practice, where management of wards is usually the priority, building out time for nurses to do this. Nurses recommending possibilities to patients and families 'how to do it' when they reach community though would be good...
Here's Emily Newton, senior lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, after Assessment on the ARNI Course Cohort 1 of 3, 2023, with a double-sided portable task-board made by her and her colleague Hayley, also at the University. Thanks for coming to the course, ladies!
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I..... Can’t stop taking natural remedies because it calms me down from depression, I'm speaking from experience when I say that pills don't always work for everyone. I've had this terrible mental health issue for a long time, but it wasn'tuntil I found Dr Agrbo solution home on Facebook that he used natural remedies to treat my anxiety and depressive disorder. He also treats patients with ADHD, OCD, PTSD, and bipolar. Attempt to find him
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ARNI aims to enhance individual's ability to manage their own rehabilitation and exercise programme. This is achieved through a variety of strategies and techniques including education in exercise principles after stroke, developing skills in goal setting, functional problem solving and self-monitoring, and establishing a programme of regular independent home-based exercise.
ARNI is designed as a personalised programme with substantial one-to-one training to ensure individual tailoring of activities, feedback and progression, and encouragement to work at the edge of personal capacity. It also often combines these features with the benefits of group programmes which include peer support, pair work and efficient use of resources, particularly the ARNI Delivery Manual (Successful Stroke Survivor) 2021 updated version.
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Via a network of specialist instructors and therapists across the UK, stroke survivors learn ARNI’s functional “retraining” strategies; aimed at enabling them to take charge of their own recovery.
Call us on 0203 053 0111 or email support@arni.uk.com to find out if there's an instructor near you who can help you with your recovery.
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I..... Can’t stop taking natural remedies because it calms me down from depression, I'm speaking from experience when I say that pills don't always work for everyone. I've had this terrible mental health issue for a long time, but it wasn'tuntil I found Dr Agrbo solution home on Facebook that he used natural remedies to treat my anxiety and depressive disorder. He also treats patients with ADHD, OCD, PTSD, and bipolar. Attempt to find him
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Think about it! It's true isn't it?
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Hi all - I've been working with Health Innovation to produce ‘My Choice’ an accessible information resource to help people live well with dementia. Since it was ‘launched’ last Thursday there have been 360 downloads already… and we will be seeking funding to evaluate and develop it further. What's the link to stroke?
Well, quite a startling fact: almost a quarter of people who have had a stroke will go on to develop vascular dementia after about three to six months. How about that? As you know, dementia can affect your memory, thinking, communication, mood and behaviour. These changes are due to damage in your brain, which can happen in different ways. It also often gets worse over time.
Do click this link and also send to others - we want this to reach as many people as possible (I did page 14, on physical activity) Tom]
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Exercise: Wrist Up n’Downs
This is a great warm-up and cool-down exercise to do for your wrist and the forearm. This exercise is designed to work the ranges of wrist flexion and extension. If you have high tone, you may find both movements extremely hard to do. By encouraging this stretch with your good hand to the limits of your current flexion and extension (being very careful not to push too far), in a rhythmic way, you will perform better in task-related activities. Figs 1 - 6. Feel on your affected hand for the top knuckle of your index finger. Now, with the pad of your thumb, feel for the long bone (metacarpal bone) that runs from your knuckle to your wrist. You should be able to feel this without problems. Slide your thumb one whole inch back along this bone and press down slightly (Fig. 1). Then, using the rest of your fingers around the back of your affected hand, pull the affected hand round so that your palm points away from you (Fig. 2). Now press down hard with the good hand’s thumb on the point described above. This may be slightly uncomfortable; if it does, shift your thumb so that the thumb pad is pressing down on a greater area around that point. Yoespecially your little finger, which should be controlled at its very base by the little finger of your good hand (Fig. 3). You can see that by pushing down on the point on the top of your affected hand with the thumb and pulling the edge of your hand up, you are creating a rotational effect, which serves to straighten your arm too. your affected arm’s wrist finds itself at an extreme angle, fully extended (Fig. 4). Now you are going to reverse the technique and pull your wrist up to your chest. This will release all pressure on your wrist until you reach the top position. Release the thumb hold you found at the start of the exercise, and simply slide your good hand a little further up your affected hand, still controlling the edge of your affected hand with the little finger of your good hand. Now you should simply have the good hand resting on the back of the affected hand (Fig. 5). Press the palm of your affected hand towards the inside of your wrist. Again, be very careful. You should feel some discomfort: if so, don’t worry; you are doing the stretch right. If it hurts, stop it immediately. If not, stay in the top stretch for a few counts, then release it and pull your affected hand down into the lower stretch again (Fig. 6). You don’t have to adjust your good hand back to finding the spot on the back of your hand. As long as you control the edge of your affected hand with the fingertips of your good hand, you will be fine, and can then rhythmically do the stretch. Turn it into an exercise, with only one or two seconds between smooth repetitions. Try to think, ‘Up, hold… and down. Up, hold... and down’. The initial set-up sounds complicated, but once you have practiced and understand it, your good hand will go straight to these points, and you can perform the technique efficiently. Study the description here and the illustrations: don’t pass this exercise over as being too difficult. It’s not. Again, be careful not to hurt yourself ‘unknowingly’. You have just placed your wrist in a compromised position: go easy until you become sensitive to the way the activity feels.
From The Successful Stroke Survivor book by Tom Balchin
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The ARNI Institute is a UK Registered Charity: No. 1116130.
Currently in our 20th year of voluntary work, we are committed to teaching stroke and other acquired injury survivors to gain better action control. Our Approach to stroke rehabilitation is dynamic, innovative and linked directly to the very latest neurorehabilitation evidence base.
We have over 100 highly qualified independent therapists and trainers around the UK, trained via our Functional Rehabilitation & Exercise Training after Stroke Qualification. Call now to find your therapist or trainer.
ARNI supports the work of the hospital therapists by supporting YOU when your care pathway ends.
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