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Neuroplasticity is activated by experience and massed practice; which requires repetition and consistency. Each time a task is practiced, it stimulates the brain and strengthens the neural connections responsible for that task. (This is how children learn how to walk, write, and talk). The same concept applies to stroke rehabilitation. When a survivor struggles with leg movement, for example, they can work to regain function by practicing leg exercises on a consistent basis. This helps improve the brain’s ability to send signals to the leg that tell it when to move, improving efficiency and overall function.
Repetition and consistency are the key to stroke recovery.
If you want some help with your recovery call us on 0203 053 0111 or email support@arni.uk.com to find out if there's an instructor who can help you.
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Had a Stroke? What Now? by Tom Balchin.
Fantastic resource
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 July 2020
As someone caring for a family member recovering from stroke this is a concise and understandable book explaining everything from the acute early stage hospital treatment, effects that strokes can have and how to support recovery. There is even an interesting section on new technologies that can be used to help. A fantastic resource.
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If you buy The Successful Stroke Survivor book on Kindle you can carry it with you on your phone. The you'll always have access to new exercises and be able to remind yourself how to progress the ones you already know..
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The Successful Stroke Survivor eBook : Balchin, Tom: Amazon.co.uk: Books
The Successful Stroke Survivor eBook : Balchin, Tom: Amazon.co.uk: Books
TIME TO GET GOING – EXERCISE REWIRES YOUR BRAIN
“If we could put exercise into a drug, it would be one of the most effective medications to prevent vascular disease and treat patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases including stroke.” Yep. And this statement is reinforced by the finding that exercise interventions are significantly more effective than drug treatments in both rehabilitation and reducing the odds of mortality among stroke survivors.
Chronic inactivity related to stroke basically has a whole load of physiological consequences that result in cardiovascular deconditioning, increased cardiovascular risk and increased mortality and morbidity risk.
The majority of survivors are cardiovascularly unfit. It has been found that due to the effects of stroke, you can even be rendered half as cardiovascularly fit compared to someone who has not had a stroke.
This can be worsened by a pre-existing cardiovascular condition, such as hypertension, congestive heart failure, peripheral vascular disease, or pulmonary and metabolic diseases. This is the bad news. The good news is that the evidence now also suggests that your exercise train-ability may be comparable, in many ways, to that of your age-matched healthy counterparts.
Despite the fact that the energy expenditure required for you to perform routine walking varies with the degree of weakness, spasticity, training, and AFO usage.. and is elevated by one and a half to two times that of non-stroke subjects…you can increase your cardiovascular fitness by a magnitude that is similar to that of healthy adults who engage in endurance training programmes. Improving aerobic fitness may allow you to carry out everyday activities with less effort and for longer periods.
So you’ve got to be active, right? There’s another crucial factor you need to know. There is growing evidence that exercise promotes brain neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity mediates cognition and the relearning of motor skills and other skills after stroke. Brains learn what they do. Remember, the brain loves repetition. Cardiovascular exercise is repetition.
And for such adaptation to happen optimally, you must be prepared to do some focused work with whatever movement you possess (with some caveats, to be explained shortly), even if you believe you have none at all. Over and over again, with as much attention to detail as you can muster.
We’ll have a look at programming for cardiovascular fitness in further posts (watch out for my tips and hints coming shortly!).
But the take-home from this post is that I want you now to think of yourself as a CREATIVE stroke survivor. Take walking. Repetitions are required but ALSO you need to set goals and targets (actually, like me, you’ll find these are fast-moving targets): to get away from supports like wheelchairs, frames and sticks as soon as possible, to go further, to go for set distances, to feel less tired each time, to ramp up the quality of your walking by focusing on how you walk, to walk over different surfaces, to walk with an AFO and without, to tackle stairs, etc. etc.
Time to make a move! Get professional help if you need or ‘go-it-alone’. If you are setting up to ‘retrain’ by yourself, when attempting walking practice, dependent on your presentation, at least collar a young and strong family member or friend to help you. No-one will mind, especially when they see you making a darned good effort. The world is yours.
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Passive range of motion exercises refer to movements in which you exert no effort in the targeted muscles. They can be performed on your own (with the help of your non-affected side) or with the help of another person.
Active range of motion exercises, on the other hand, refer to movements you complete without assistance that take your joints through part. or all. of their range of motion.
Therefore, range of motion exercises can be performed passively or actively (where ‘actively’ simply means you perform the movement yourself).
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You may well find that you need a trainer to guide you into self-recovery efforts until you are happy that you are training autonomously, and have integrated training into your life. If you can find a professional instructor who has been trained to support the work of hospital therapists, as ARNI trainers have been, and they can facilitate you to recover independently, you are one step ahead.
Call us on 0203 053 0111 or email support@arni.uk.com to find out if there's a trainer near you who can help you with your recovery.
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The Successful Stroke Survivor book, by, ARNI Director, Tom Balchin is available for your Kindle. You need never be far from your copy (you could carry it around with you). Even better you'll have it straight away so you can start exercising today. (No need to wait for it to be delivered).
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The Successful Stroke Survivor eBook : Balchin, Tom: Amazon.co.uk: Books
The Successful Stroke Survivor eBook : Balchin, Tom: Amazon.co.uk: Books
If you suffer from shoulder pain due to shoulder subluxation, frozen shoulder, or spasticity, the electrical stimulation may be worth considering.
Electrical stimulation helps the muscles contract and the upper arm to go back into the socket.
It won’t happen all at once, but combining electrical stimulation with exercise is shown to produce better results.
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The ARNI Institute is a UK Registered Charity: No. 1116130.
Currently in our 23rd 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 therapy is dynamic, innovative and linked directly to the very latest neurorehabilitation evidence base.
We have over 140 highly qualified independent therapists and trainers around the UK active & available for you at any one time, 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.
NEW! GET YOUR COPY OF NEW BOOK BY TOM BALCHIN LEARN HOW TO RECOVER OPTIMALLY
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Whether you had your stroke a week or 20 years ago, this seriously practical book reveals everything you need to know about for real-life, evidence-based long-term recovery from limitations caused by stroke, that you can actually understand, use and apply successfully for yourself. With 244 pages of new information and material, it’s stacked with revelations for you based on the neuro-rehabilitation evidence-base.
NEW! LISTEN TO THIS TESTIMONIAL FROM A STROKE SURVIVOR TRAINING WITH ARNI
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Click the middle of this short video to listen to the experiences of a stroke survivor currently rehabilitating with the help of an a Senior ARNI Instructor. You can learn for yourself about what she has been doing in this DVD series.
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