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IS YOUR REHAB ON PAUSE?? GET HALF-PRICE 6-7 HOURS OF TOP VIDEO REHAB GUIDANCE!

ARNI Institute for Stroke Rehabilitation
January 20, 2021
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Life is rather restricted at the moment. It’s not that great. Is your rehab on pause? Are you currently still in a wheelchair? Or, do you have just a few limitations from stroke? Or do you have a friend or family member who is??

If this is the case, ARNI would like to help you rehabilitate your balance control, cope with foot drop, get stronger, reduce spasticity, recover the ability to grasp & release objects and become self-reliant rather than dependent on others.

Whatever your status, whoever you are, ARNI would like to offer you the full 7 Successful Stroke Survivor videos (45-60 mins) either in physical format, or convenient online anytime streaming access format to any device, for half price to give you encouragement to persevere..

Learn how ARNI Rehab Concept align directly with the latest evidence base for stroke rehabilitation interventions and get to practise them alongside Dr Balchin as your guide, at home!

The Full Set (physical or streaming) is £98.00 incl p&p – but get yours now for £48 (incl p&p)!
Individual DVDs (physical or streaming) are £20 incl p&p – but get yours now for £10 (incl p&p)!

(Your price is lower than the cost-price for the ARNI Charity)

You’re so welcome to take advantage of this offer, which is time limited until 1st March 2020, by calling the ARNI Central Number

0203 053 0111

Please do leave your name and number if we are unavailable and we will call you back.

The evidence base shows that you MUST perform some exercises routinely to help yourself to recover well.

But what do you actually do?? Dr Tom Balchin shows you the best (most generalisable) strategies from the best-selling manual The Successful Stroke Survivor.

7 DVDs of 45-60 minutes each, filmed in full HD 1080p clarity, this superb quality DVD set or online programme will be your accompaniment to progressive rehabilitation.

Get YOURS or a set as a gift for a friend today. Call: 0203 053 0111

Please remember to leave a message if you are forwarded to an answerphone: we WILL get back to you!!!

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Suzie Kidd says:

April 14, 2021 at 8:52 pm

Do you have a video available that would help me learn how to get to my feet after floor exercise or a fall?

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20 hours ago

If stroke survivors fail to move their muscles (either through active exercise or passive range of motion), they may develop a condition called learned non-use. This condition causes your brain to have even more difficulty paying attention to the affected muscles, therefore making it harder to rehabilitate these muscles and over-relying on your non-affected side. This is where the phrase “use it or lose it!” comes from.
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4 days ago

A core part of the ARNI approach is to teach stroke survivors how to cope with falls; the most dangerous part of the balance problems caused by stroke.

Survivors (many of whom have the functional use of just one arm) learn how to get down to, and up from, the floor without any kind of external support to pull themselves up with.
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I need to learn how to get up.with no aids.I asked my NHS physio several times but they just ignored it. Starting with ARNI in the new year

How do I get help from ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery as when I had my stroke the covid outbreak started and I had no physio.

There should be funding for those on benefits as our OT is understandably cut short due to the system behind under resourced

Took me 4years but I've lost my ability to do it now. 8 year post and seriously regressing rapidly due to spasticity

I need to learn how to he up and down from the floor xx

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4 days ago

In order to efficiently rewire the brain, you need high repetition because that’s how the brain rewires itself. Each time you repeat a movement, the connections in the brain become stronger. If you aren’t consistent, then the connections quickly grow weaker and fail to produce results.
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4 days ago

If you do the maths - it's true!
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7 days ago

Although the brain is in a heightened state of plasticity immediately after stroke, neuroplasticity may be activated throughout the recovery process; whether it has been a few months or a few decades since a stroke, the brain is still capable of healing and rewiring.

Studies have shown that the brain is changing itself throughout an entire life time. This means that recovery is continuous. Whenever you stimulate your brain with positive, consistent and repetitive stimulus, the brain will respond.
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7 days ago

Knowledge is power.; and even more so for stroke recovery!
In the field of stroke rehabilitation there are new advances, major and minor, emerging regularly. You need to keep as current as possible. You need to know what you need. And if you find things that seem appropriate to your needs, investigate them further to work out whether they’re suitable applications to streamline your retraining or self-management.
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1 week ago

Tom doing sledgehammer levering work in his home gym with his homemade loadable axe-lever. Tom had this made at his local blacksmiths. This isn't something for 99.9% of stroke survivors to be doing, but there's no reason not to work your grip and wrist power as hard as possible, however possible, on your stronger and weaker sides. Type in 'weaver stick work' to Google for an example of how to do lever-bar work for wrist power.
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Exercise: Wall squat hold

Did you notice that this technique is called a wall-squat hold? There is a reason that you don’t attempt to turn it into a squat, and try and rub yourself up and down a wall. Such an attempt won’t work for stroke survivors, mainly because the affected foot will slip away, and you could easily be unable to slide up the wall because of the friction involved.

This exercise is to slide down the wall and hold until near failure, then lean forward, push away from the wall and stand upright. You should not feel pain or discomfort in your knees at any time during this exercise. When you think you are coming towards the end of failure, just move to a standing position. Over time, your judgement concerning extending the failure window and successful successful completion of the set will be honed.

Read full Techniquein The Successful Stroke Survivor book by Tom Balchin
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5 Factors You Can Control in Stroke Recovery
Neurological rehabilitation is a complex process, influenced by many factors – most of which are outside of your control. You can’t control your age, how big your stroke was, or how severe your deficits are. You have limited control over your access to skilled therapy and whether you have a solid support network of friends and family in place. While this lack of control can leave you feeling helpless, there are some important aspects of your recovery that you can take responsibility for.
Here's how these 5 personal factors can impact your stroke recovery:
Recognition
In order to improve, first you must have awareness that there is a problem. If you think you speak just fine, it’s highly unlikely you’ll put in the time and effort required to change your speech. Some stroke and brain injury survivors are unaware they have problems with communication or cognition, a condition called anosognosia, so when they come to therapy, they don’t understand why they’re being asked to do the tasks. Building insight into the problem is an important first step in rehabilitation.
Motivation
After you recognize you have a problem, you must have the desire to change. If you know your speech is slurred but don’t care, why would you put in the time and effort to improve it? Some people lack motivation because they’re suffering from clinical depression, while some strokes physically damage the neural networks and dopamine pathways that control motivation. If you are feeling chronically unmotivated to improve a known impairment, talk to your doctor. And remember, it’s the person with the problem who must want to change – not just their family.
Determination
Having the desire to change is a great start, but you also need the resolve to do the work. Changing the brain is possible with repetition and time. There are no easy fixes, so if you really want to change, you have to be prepared to put in the effort – especially when it gets hard. Setting up small tangible rewards for yourself along the way can keep you moving forward when changes in your communication are harder to see.
Direction
You know there’s a problem, you want to change, and you’re ready to work hard – now you need a road map. This is where having a good therapist can help you set realistic goals, helping you know where you’re going and how to get there. You’ll receive instructions, exercises, or activities to help you improve.
Conviction
Deep down, you have to believe that change is possible. Hope is a powerful drug that makes therapy so much more effective. Some people hear from their doctors that they won’t get any better after 6 weeks, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year… These timelines are untrue and can destroy hope. Hope alone won’t make you better, but without hope, progress is rare.
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2 weeks ago

Have you ever thought about doing core exercises on a chair? (no, me neither). Sit on a hard chair so the back of it is by your good arm. Then lean back, safely, as far as you can, to work your core. So its the same exercise without having to get down to the floor. So wherever you are shuffle forward a bit to give yourself some space to lean back and you can do it anywhere. Clever!
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