Everything you do towards your own rehabilitation builds up for you a body of knowledge and change which positively affects your own progress. With the right amount of rehab, a person's speech, cognitive, motor and sensory skills can steadily be recovered. Although just 10% of people fully recover from a stroke, 25% have only minor impairments and 40% have moderate impairments that are manageable with some special care. And there's no reason to be one of those people who decline after stroke. Use ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery for ideas and go for it!!
Call us on 0203 053 0111 or email support@arni.uk.com to find out if there's an ARNI trainer near you who can help with your recovery.
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Could you confidently assess if you or a loved one is at risk of a TIA?
People with cardiovascular risk factors, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, high cholesterol and smoking, are well known to be at high risk for stroke and TIA. Other conditions that increase risk of a TIA include peripheral artery disease, atrial fibrillation, obstructive sleep apnea and coronary artery disease.
In addition, a person who has had a prior stroke is at high risk for TIA. Stroke symptoms that disappear in under an hour, known as a transient ischemic attack (TIA), need emergency assessment to help prevent a full-blown stroke, according to a new American Heart Association scientific statement published last week in the Association's journal Stroke. The statement offers a standardized approach to evaluating people with suspected TIA, with guidance specifically for hospitals in rural areas that may not have access to advanced imaging or an on-site neurologist.
The statement also includes guidance to help health care professionals tell the difference between a TIA and a "TIA mimic" -- a condition that shares some signs with TIA but is due to other medical conditions such as low blood sugar, a seizure or a migraine. Symptoms of a TIA mimic tend to spread to other parts of the body and build in intensity over time.
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A review of Successful Stroke Survivor book:
Following my traumatic brain injury, I was determined and relentless to get back on the road to recovery. For guidance on the road to functional recovery and alongside my physiotherapist, this was the book for me. Tom Balchin details the latest evidence based techniques and ARNI approaches to help recovery. I found particularly useful the ways to help reduce spasticity and decline in upper limb as well as how to regain hand and finger function as well as strengthening exercises for lower limb function. Through such detailed and informative advice, married with clear illustrations you are taken through detailed text involving key concepts such as brain plasticity followed by the steps to retrain your affected limbs for the purposes of functionality. For example, to get up from the floor. If you stick with Tom's methods and practice practice practice, you are sure to see results! I even followed this with a session with Tom himself! Absolutely great!
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Have YOU got aphasia?
Approximately 40% of stroke survivors experience this difficulty: to comprehend or produce spoken or written language caused by a cerebrovascular accident. In half of these cases the language impairment still persists one year post-stroke. Aphasia has wide-ranging effects on the ability to function and quality of life of stroke survivors and easily leads to social isolation.
If you need help, ARNI SLT Telerehab can now help YOU, right now, wherever you are in the world!
The latest evidence shows clearly that you can conquer aphasia very successfully with the help of speech and language therapy.
And it also shows that SLT Telerehab is just as effective as in-person, face to face treatment.
We have a team of highly experienced low-cost specialist SLTs (all post-grads from Universities such as UCL, the University of Cape Town etc) who are available to help you right now, in your home, via Zoom. You get a one to one hourly service, based around your diary needs, from the comfort of your own home, with a highly experienced specialist speech and language therapist. Please enquire to arni.uk.com/get-remote-speech-language-help-now/ !
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Brains learn what they do. And for such adaptation to happen optimally, you must be prepared to do some focused work with whatever movement you possess, even if you believe you have none at all. Over and over again, with as much attention to detail as you can muster. How do YOU yourself try to go about this? Do explain so that others can be inspired...
Dr Tom says that the idea that ‘it’s all about neuroplasticity’ (focused task-practice) may be too simplistic to be a fully robust basis for an innovative Approach to stroke recovery. It is important to appreciate that in some cases stroke damage may be so extensive and severe that remaining neural networks (if any) may be too weak to be ‘retrained’.
There exists some evidence which indicates that there may have to be enough remaining neural networks to be able to ‘re-programme’ for plasticity to work optimally. There is also evidence though that your brain is able to recruit remaining neural networks (usually near the lesion) to perform the similar functions of the damaged ones. Sometimes this even includes networks in areas of your brain that were not normally involved in the specific motor system. Neuroplasticity needs very specific input with the proper stimulus which should be done regularly enough to become a habit.
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ARNI provides specialist rehabilitation and exercise support for stroke survivors once hospital and community physiotherapy finishes. This video showcases some stroke survivor stories and how ARNI has helped them in their recovery. Contact us on 0203 053 0111 or email support@arni.uk.com if you, or someone you know, wants our help.
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What is post-stroke fatigue anyway? Characteristics may include: overwhelming tiredness and lack of energy to perform daily activities; abnormal need for naps, rest, or extended sleep; more easily tired by daily activities than pre-stroke; unpredictable feelings of fatigue without apparent reason. It's also often under-recognised; so healthcare professionals such as ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery instructors should anticipate the possibility of post-stroke fatigue and prepare people who have experienced a stroke and families to mitigate fatigue through assessment, education, and interventions throughout the stroke-recovery continuum [Evidence Level B].
Tom notes: Post-stroke fatigue does not appear to be correlated to the severity of stroke. People who experience very mild stroke may still experience post-stroke fatigue.
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Researchers have developed the world’s first system that automatically recommends the optimal stroke rehabilitation programme.
An increasing number of strokes and subsequent rehabilitation has highlighted the growing need for effective care strategies. Serious side effects, such as motor paralysis, can be challenging to treat, but the recent incorporation of robots into treatment has shown promise.
Automated robots repeatedly provide the proper movements necessary to recover motor function. However, to ensure appropriate care tailored to the degree of motor paralysis, knowledge of robots and rehabilitation is needed.
Researchers have now collected data from the actual use of Teijin Pharma Ltd.’s rehabilitation robot ReoGo-J.
The team looked into the rehabilitation programmes that were selected by medical staff to match the degree of motor paralysis. By analysing the data, the group developed the world’s first system that automatically recommends the optimal rehabilitation programme. Based on a simple test to check the degree of motor paralysis in a patient’s hands, an appropriate treatment can be determined.
“By using this system, as long as medical professionals can carry out the test, even staff without experience with robots can provide appropriate robotic rehabilitation for motor paralysis,” said Osaka Metropolitan University professor Takashi Takebayashi.
“We hope this will lead to the further promotion of robot rehabilitation and a reduction in the burden on medical staff.”
For more, see www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-74672-2
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Welcome to the new Data Laws coming in to effect tomorrow: May 25th.
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Excellent support from my personal trainer Patrick Hoad. Arni fills the huge gap left in stroke rehabilitation care that is left after you leave hospital/ rehab unit and is the only organisation that has kept me informed of stroke rehabilitation. Developments through email and their excellent conferences/ group training sessions
ARNI does excellent work in stroke recovery and rehab, well done
The ARNI Charity does such fantastic work;there is nothing quite like it in the rehabilitation of Stroke survivors .
Great Job and well done
Keep up the brilliant work!