If you're physically able, drawing and cooking can be great activities that promote attention in stroke recovery.
“Focus on doing things you enjoy, but adjust them to a level that makes sense for you now. So, iIf you love doing 1,500-piece jigsaw puzzles, scale it back to 100. If you love to tinker, start with small tabletop projects.
It really is about individually tailoring and modifying things.
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Dr Tom from ARNI, DJ'ing at a house party, round about 2005, 7 years after stroke. As soon as he was discharged from hospital, he got back to DJ'ing. It was his retraining for upper limb: DJ therapy! And you can, as a survivor, feel free to use both decks with your good side, operating the mixer (crossfade, EQ's and switches) with your bad side - as he is doing in this pic! What an example!!
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One of the biggest keys to progress in stroke recovery is to come to appreciate that 'everyday active retraining' is the zone you need to be in. It doesn't AT ALL have to be vigorous. It just needs to be gently suitable for you and, above all, consistent.
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Tom's top tips:
If we do enough repetitions/tasks, our brain works for us and gets stronger.
Record yourself. Track your progress and a useful way to see how you are moving.
Make "challenge boards", these can be a collection of fastenings, fixtures and textures. All in one place, ready for you to practice and ensure you can increase your repetitions!
Ensure you have fun. Do a hobby, or try something new. For example, chess is a great way to train reach, grasp and release. (Tom became interested in DJing; a great way to practise shoulder/arm and hand movements!
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Identifying and setting numerous purposeful rehab goals is hugely important. It's important that they are self-driven. challenging, targeted and achievable. When creating your goals look at short, medium and long term,
And if you need help to achieve your goals; call us on 0203 053 0111 or email support@arni.uk.com. We have trainers throughout the country who can help you.
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Exercise: Folds and rotates
Taken from The Successful Stroke Survivor book by Tom Balchin
This exercise is particularly for those with high tone, but great for those with low tone too. You are going to be working at rotating your affected hand at the wrist, with clasped hands. This interlaced-fingers position is sometimes awkward for to get into, so included here also is the set-up technique in order to achieve the first position.
When you come to a point where your affected hand will not move from the wrist at all under its own steam, you can gently try using the good hand to stretch your affected hand wrist back and forth, and up and down.
Go carefully on the wrist stretching. You can phase this exercise into pulling the fingers out into stretches too, so don’t just think of it as an ‘exercise’; think of it as something you might do to warm up before a task, or between repetitions on a task. Stretching can relieve soreness caused by task-related training.
For the full detailed method - steps 1 to 6, please get acopy of the Successful Stroke Survivor: www.strokesolutions.co.uk/product/successful-stroke-survivor-manual/
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BECOME AN INSTRUCTOR WHO CAN RETRAIN STROKE SURVIVORS EFFECTIVELY
There are many hundreds of people in your own area right now who need your help. Even if you are already an accomplished fitness trainer or alternative therapist, you may have never trained a stroke survivor before. Or you may have, but you want to make a REALLY SIGNIFICANT difference within a clear safety parameter because you understand that they want much more than you currently can teach them with your armoury of skills.
They need you to teach them evidence-based and innovative self-management skills. You will learn about the principles of these on the Course from therapists who want you to extend the work they started with them to continue recovery paths towards autonomy and prevent declines. Stroke survivors want to do number of things, such as learn to get up and down off the floor, relearn balance and recover reach and grasp/release of the paretic (weak) upper limb. After discharge from hospitals the therapists do not have the time or resources to perform as much work with each stroke survivor as they would like to… so these people need YOUR help in the community over the long term. Similarly, people who have had a stroke 10 years ago will also need help.
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I was very happy to uncover this website. I need to to thank you for ones time for this wonderful read!! I definitely loved every part of it and i also have you book-marked to see new information in your blog. Starla Coleman Larimor
I have found your series of DVDs very helpful and would be interested in a ‘virtual attendance’ at some parts of the conference.
Would you please let me have a copy of the programme list so that I can select the sessions in which I am interested?
Am I correct in assuming that ‘virtual attendance’ is free?
What areyou charging for this online conference, please?
Or, this year, is it free to attend?
Many thanks,
Sue
5 years post stroke