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Try this if you are unsure of your ability to get down onto the floor from standing. The idea is that you are building up your confidence to attempt to move to the floor smoothly, safely and in control.
You need to be standing balanced on two feet for this fundamental exercise. This is a starter exercise to get you to feel confident about going down onto the floor. Reach down with your good hand to the front side of your good foot and try to touch the floor with your fingertip, and straighten up again. You can lower your hips and bend at the knees as much as you like. Don’t worry. You may not be able to get even half-way there! Depending on your age, time from injury, degree of rehabilitation so far and many other factors, This can be easy or may require considerable courage to contemplate doing. However, please persist. Try to get close to touching the floor. Do this technique over and again until you have it worked out really well.
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CIMT (constraint induced movement therapy) is a beneficial treatment option to use in conjunction with other rehabilitation. It is useful in that it can be performed at any stage of stroke recovery and it can be performed in any setting after being assessed and the principals of treatment outlined by a therapist. CIMT can be goal directed and patient specific so it focuses on individual patient’s objectives, which can mean that stroke survivors are kept motivated and enthusiastic as they have set their own goals which they want to achieve. However for CIMT to be effective, stroke survivors need to adhere to the duration and frequency of the treatment, to ensure the best chance of neuroplasticity to take place. For neuroplasticity to happen stroke survivors need to be dedicated and positive to the concept and getting family and friends involved seems to be a good way to keep motivation and support ongoing. Regularly recording outcome measures will also show any progress that has been made and can allow the stroke survivor to review their goals and treatment options.
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Retraining the ability to turn If you walk along in one line, at some point or another, you’ve probably got to turn round again. This turning point can be an area where a stroke survivor can be very unsure on his or her feet, which means that this can also can be a point where a fall could take place. Very simply, the more you walk, the better you should get at coping with the unexpected problems faced when walking. But you are still vulnerable when you are changing direction. Instead of either leaning on something to help yourself turn, or shuffling around, and perhaps taking about 3 or 4 steps with each foot (the two most common strategies I see being used), you should learn how to pivot. Pivoting is the practice of sweeping one foot round and taking it off the floor whilst keeping the other on the ground as the centre of rotation.
I will show you a few good ways to turn, using the pivot. For the stroke survivor, the affected foot needs to be the pivot foot. This remains in location and the other foot, the sweeping foot, moves to a new location. The pivot foot is the centre of rotation and the heel of that foot comes slightly off the floor, so that the pivot is on the ball of the foot. This prevents the knee from suffering torsion, since the pivot actually occurs at the hip.
If you stay flat-footed (as stroke survivors are often forced to do because of injury) your knee will undergo torque. Which you don’t want. You may move the sweeping foot to the front or rear: called a front or rear pivot. The key for the pivot is that you become momentarily one-legged whilst you turn. Following are two techniques: one to turn 90 degrees and another to turn 180 degrees quickly and simply. Before you attempt these, however, here’s a movement that you can explore: the floor stab. It is designed to help your body understand that it is the fairly extreme change in hip-angle and direction of the good foot that you must produce via momentum that will allow the effortless pivot, particularly in the 180 degree turn. Building up proficiency in walking will bring gains in turns of increased ability to cope with sudden changes in stability.
Find out more in The Successful Stroke Survivor book by Tom Balchin
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There are ALWAYS ways for stroke survivors to strength train without needing a gym - ARNI Director Dr Tom shows how it's done! 😉 www.arni.uk.com
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This article says if you want to learn and change your brain as an adult, there has to be a high level of focus and engagement. Then to cement those gains, your brain needs to release another chemical called acetylcholine. And to get it to do that, you need to give it a real rest. "A lot of the changes in these brain structures occur after learning during deep sleep.
Read the full article to find out more.
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Your brain isn't wired to learn new skills as an adult, but you can force it to using this two-step process.
Remember! A wider stance creates a more stable base while a narrower stance requires more balance.
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Fatigue is a common effect after stroke that can make life 'challenging'. To help manage it, and still be able to do your rehab exercises, start small and find the right balance of activity and rest that your brain can handle.
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"We are in the early stages of a Brain Plasticity Revolution. That revolution begins with a clearer understanding that the brain’s machinery is being continually rewired and functionally revised , substantially under your control, throughout the course of your natural life. You have a remarkable built-in ability to strengthen and grow the person that you are, at any age.
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Neuroplasticity: How Your Life Shapes Your Brain - The Best Brain Possible
Neuroplasticity refers to alterations in your brain made in response to incoming stimuli. Your life literally changes the form and function of your brain.
Goals need to be a mix of highly achievable and reasonable, with a few unlikely ones thrown in which you are still going to strive for and do your best at achieving. The reason for that is that in striving for the seemingly unachievable, by default, stroke survivors will almost always achieve the achievable.
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Exercise: Hip-swing floorstab exercise is from From The Successful Stroke Survivor by book Tom Balchin. It is a precursor to warm up for ‘turning 90 degrees with ease’ and is designed to get you to activate your hips. It builds up your ability to hip-swing. Find out more about it in The Successful Stroke Survivor book.
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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.
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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.
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