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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Successful Stroke Survivor Manual: Part-book and part-manual for those who have suffered a stroke and reached the end of formal stroke rehabilitation therapy. The highly motivational approach to functional training FOR ALL AGE GROUPS revealed inside is a distillation of hundreds of innovative ways created to encourage positive adaptations in the brain after stroke.
Would you like to get up from the floor without any support? YES!
Would you like to effectively tackle spasticity in your hand? YES!
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For the results you deserve (as this is your life) you ideally need to train one to one with a trainer until you can learn enough to train yourself, or you must train yourself. That’s the bottom line!
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.
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Exercise: The Metronome This exercise consists of moving from one foot to another, trying to force weight through the affected leg and equalise your hip placement in relation to your stance. This will go some way towards increasing your confidence in your ability to cope with drop-foot and instability. Even subjects with severe limitations from stroke are able to improve their speed and precision of weight shifting by reducing the weight-transfer time toward both legs in a proportionate manner17. The technique is slightly different from simpler weight shifting, because from the onset of training in a standing position, you should be trying to ‘rock’ quite dynamically, challenging your balance. You may find that you have slightly slower weight shifts toward the affected side but keep working on it. Think of ‘becoming’ a metronome, ticking away back and forth. If you have an I-Phone, or have a friend who does, you can get an application with a visual display of a metronome on the phone. I use this a lot with patients and it’s useful for varying training rhythm to current capabilities. Extend the time you spend on one leg as you shift weight, and over time, you will hopefully find that you are quite comfortable spending a few seconds balancing on the affected leg with knee bent, then rocking over to spend time on the good leg. Simply focus on what you are doing and get inside (explore) the movement. The exercise seems to re-teach the brain about the limits of where balance can be lost to the affected side. This is instructive, and it will buy you some extra milliseconds when you do fall (and help you cope with falling).
Technique
Figs. 1 - 2. Stand with your feet at shoulder width. Keep your knees unlocked. Then simply sway from one foot to the other, lifting the feet alternately. Spend one or two seconds on each leg. Build up a rhythm and find a speed you are comfortable with. Tip for helper However good you think you are at standing up, have someone around when you try this technique for the first few sessions. They should stand behind you ready to help you regain your equilibrium if you get into trouble. All the ‘spotter’ needs to do is to be ready, in the same way that they can help when you get up from the floor for the first time, by being ready to push a solid arm out on the left or right side of your body, to help restore balance.
From The Successful Stroke Survivor book by Tom Balchin.
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So where do you start with all this? Well, this is actually pretty easy. Start where you are, and just improve from there. If you can walk for five metres with a trainer or therapist holding your hand lightly, then do those five, and make sure to do six, even seven the next time. Then once you reach ten, go back and get the therapist or trainer to stand close, but not touch you. You are on a mission to do things yourself, progressively. This means that you need to make things tougher for yourself each time, but not too hard that you risk failing each time.
And if you need some help, call us on 0203 053 0111 or email support@arni.uk.com We have trainers throughout the country.
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Apart from ramping up physical activity and cardio activity, by far the most important part of recovery from many stroke survivors’ points of view is rehabilitation. Hence ARNI’s concentration on teaching you techniques to tackle hundreds of improvement activities including weight-bearing, balance and gait-control (including how to cope with drop-foot and reducing the required supporting power of the AFO over time, etc), coping strategies (such as getting down and up from the floor unaided and emergency action avoidance techniques, turning etc), upper limb training (tackling spasticity. flaccidty etc) one to one, with the help of a physio or trainer, as well as how to train for cardio effect independently at home.
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Wow, there’s so much to do after stroke, right?
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When to train?
The best advice is to for you to do two or three days per week of intense training work, either by yourself or with support from a trainer. You should also do something each day in the realms of stretching (to keep muscles long and stave off contracture if possible) and various cardiovascular additions (to get your heart rate up, increase blood circulation and metabolism).
The optimal time to exercise during the day is when your body temperature is at its highest, so optimal times for training coincide when the blood pressure naturally goes up during the day. If you need some help from one of our trainers then give us a call on 0203 053 0111 or email support@arni.uk.com
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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