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ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery

24 hours ago

Side bends don't always have to be done on the floor. There's and exercise in The Successful Stroke Survivor book that shows you how to do them in standing. It is worth remembering that exercises can often be modified to make them achievable. If you need some help we have trainers throughout the country who can work with you. Give us a call on 0203 053 0111 or email support@arni.uk.com
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ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery

3 days ago

Independently getting off the floor (IGO): a feasibility study of teaching people with stroke to get up after a fall - a look-back at research at the ARNI strategy that has been used for 24 years now in the community since developed by Dr Tom.

Background: Falls are common among stroke survivors but many are not taught how to get up again. A technique from Action for Rehabilitation following Neurological Injury (ARNI) addresses this problem. This study investigated the feasibility and safety of teaching this technique to stroke survivors.
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ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery

4 days ago

So what is subluxation? It is a partial dislocation of the arm at the shoulder joint that occurs in many people after a stroke. In most cases the humerus (upper arm bone) drops down out of the shoulder joint. This condition is caused by inappropriate neural drive to the muscles of the shoulder, causing either extreme muscle weakness or spastic muscles.

Stand relaxed, with your shoulders at your sides. Now you need to try to think about squeezing your shoulders towards the level of your ears. The aim is for the slope of your shoulders to become as symmetrical and as close to the horizontal as possible. Breathe in as you pull the shoulders up, hold for a few counts at the top, whilst squeezing your neck muscles together hard. Then slowly lower your shoulders again whilst breathing out. Do not rotate your shoulders – no need for that. Up, hold and down works best. Try doing this whilst looking in a mirror and evaluate your progress. Do not get down-hearted however, if it appears that your drop-shoulder is very significant. Provided it is not misaligned, I have seen the problem, and usually the pain, lessen in most cases. And over time, for many people, it will disappear as long as you are taking part in effortful exercise, especially if you able to get further into resistance training No need to hold onto any weight for now. Any weight held in your hands can come later once you are happy with the technique.

Taken from The Successful Stroke Survivor book
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ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery

5 days ago

There's a great exercise in The Successful Stroke Survivor book called Stick Sword-play. It's an advanced, multi-joint movement, movement, suitable for you when you have a fair degree of voluntary control. The technique is straightforward.

It’s your time to get busy with your ‘sword’, with an imaginary opponent in front of you.

Have you tried it?
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ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery

6 days ago

Onto one of our favourite topics at ARNI – trying to regain action control of the upper limb.

A majority of stroke survivors who are matched with ARNI specialist instructors, when relaying their prior physiotherapy and any other early rehabilitative efforts, will report that the focus of their therapy to date has usually been on the paretic lower limb & balance, weight-bearing & walking practice. A minority remembered consistently focusing on practising upper limb exercises.

This happens for a number of reasons, but primarily because it is critical to get stroke survivors walking, and also essential to keep spirits up with the recognition of progress, which probably is facilitated better by the thought of being able to walk again.

So hospitals often do not have time to devote to extensive hand-function efforts, and by the time further treatment is sought, the task is all the more harder. But it is vital that stroke survivors are shown what to do in the community in order to continue the work of the therapists.

ARNI founder, Dr Tom, has consistently found it no simple task to work out exactly what to try to do in order to help someone with a presentation of spasticity or flaccidity (or most likely, a combination of the two, depending upon at what point one gets to meet the survivor).

Each presentation has varying characteristics (so no specialist knows fully what kind of evidence-based 'mix of interventions' to apply, otherwise stroke survivors in general would be doing much better these days!). But there are LOADS of ways to try (to engage neuroplasticity/encourage spasticity/flaccidity decline etc etc...)

Btw, ARNI has over 170 active trainers and therapists across the UK, who attempt to support you to do help yourself, if you have u/l problems; guiding and guarding you into/toward a pattern of success.

And helping you set up a practice regime/programme - and also how someone else can help you – mainly in positioning your hand and supporting your arm to do task-practice. And will show you a number of best ways that you can get started. No need for expensive kit either.

CALL THE ARNI INSTITUTE CHARITY FOR STROKE REHAB TO FIND OUT MORE! Call Us : 0203 053 0111
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ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery

1 week ago

Interesting news for people limited by aphasia; a stroke survivor speaking again in the US with the help of an experimental brain-computer implant. Scientists have developed a device that can translate thoughts about speech into spoken words in real time.

Although it’s still experimental, they hope the brain-computer interface could someday help give voice to those unable to speak.
A new study described testing the device on a 47-year-old woman with quadriplegia who couldn’t speak for 18 years after a stroke. Doctors implanted it in her brain during surgery as part of a clinical trial.

It “converts her intent to speak into fluent sentences,” said Gopala Anumanchipalli, a co-author of the study published Monday in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

Other brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs, for speech typically have a slight delay between thoughts of sentences and computerized verbalization. Such delays can disrupt the natural flow of conversation, potentially leading to miscommunication and frustration, researchers said.

This is “a pretty big advance in our field,” said Jonathan Brumberg of the Speech and Applied Neuroscience Lab at the University of Kansas, who was not part of the study.

A team in California recorded the woman’s brain activity using electrodes while she spoke sentences silently in her brain. The scientists used a synthesizer they built using her voice before her injury to create a speech sound that she would have spoken. They trained an AI model that translates neural activity into units of sound.

It works similar to existing systems used to transcribe meetings or phone calls in real time, said Anumanchipalli, of the University of California, Berkeley.

The implant itself sits on the speech center of the brain so that it’s listening in, and those signals are translated to pieces of speech that make up sentences. It’s a “streaming approach,” Anumanchipalli said, with each 80-millisecond chunk of speech — about half a syllable — sent into a recorder.

“It’s not waiting for a sentence to finish,” Anumanchipalli said. “It’s processing it on the fly.”
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ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery

1 week ago

If you're based in West London, look out for this. Neurotech company Reneural is partnering with The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Brunel University of London (where Dr Balchin used to work)... in a VR stroke rehab project.

Reneural has been awarded funding through the New Hospital Programme by NHS England to further develop its digital health solution for stroke rehabilitation. The collaboration brings together leading experts across healthcare and academia.

The project will establish a clinician dashboard that enables physiotherapists and occupational therapists to remotely interact with patients, treat them, and monitor stroke rehabilitation.

Reneural’s VR rehabilitation system will aim to enhance therapy efficiency and improve accessibility for stroke survivors, particularly those facing upper-limb mobility challenges.

The project will support stroke rehabilitation by enhancing patient-therapist interaction through the personalisation of therapy to improve patient outcomes, and improving treatment accessibility through the use of remote therapy to improve healthcare accessibility.

Once the design and development are complete, if the digital health solution is adopted, the project will benefit both hospital-based and community therapy teams, including the Stroke Early Supported Discharge (ESD) team at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.

Victor Harabari, CEO of Reneural, said: “This partnership represents a significant step forward in our mission to transform neurorehabilitation. By combining our expertise with that of Hillingdon Hospitals and Brunel University of London, we are excited to develop innovative solutions that aligns with NHS long term plan and enhance patient care.”

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