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Have you heard of amazing Neuromersiv Ulysses system?! ✨ This groundbreaking VR technology is specifically designed to help us stroke survivors regain lost function in our arms and hands. 🧠
The system immerses you in virtual activities that simulate daily living tasks, such as cooking, dressing, and cleaning. This makes rehabilitation feel less like work and more like an engaging game, helping to promote the high number of repetitions needed for neuroplasticity! 🎉
Studies have shown that the use of this system can lead to significant improvements in upper limb motor function. The system is designed to be highly motivating, with the immersive environment and reward systems encouraging you to keep going with your retraining. 💖
You can find the Ulysses VR software available to buy in the UK; it's primarily offered to rehabilitation providers like clinics and hospitals, but options for our individual use are also available.
The company has made affordability a key consideration, offering a flexible monthly leasing option and aiming for a reasonable price point to make it more accessible for survivors.
For more information on how to access the system, you can contact Neuromersiv directly through their website or by phone to discuss options for individual use. This is a huge step forward in making innovative rehabilitation technology accessible and engaging for more people! 🥳
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Prayer Finger Bends This exercise is self-explanatory: it involves working your bad hand so that a prayer-position can be assumed. This ‘matching’ of all the digits is an exercise in itself. If you haven’t tried this, which I’m sure you will have, it’s a good way for those who are perhaps training you to see immediately the action control that you currently possess. It doesn’t matter that your palms themselves may not be able to touch: approximating this position is, in itself, retraining.
Find out more in The Successful Stroke Survivor book by Tom Balchin
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I was just about to login and watch Tom’s videos for inspiration and motivation, thanks x
Sending you love ❤️ don't let your health issues get the best of you. I can relate, I almost lost hope due to the horrible conditions i was into but it was only the natural route I followed Dr Miracle that gave me another reason to smile again. I spend less and am currently heal and healthy for years now Dr Miracle is the right person to meet for help there are lots of useful informations you will find Dr Miracle Herbal home
US President Woodrow Wilson suffered an apparent stroke that left him incapacitated for the rest of his life on September 25, 1919.
But despite his serious illness leaving him unable to fulfil his duties as president, he was never replaced.
And for a year-and-a-half, the administration was effectively run by his wife Edith.
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Yes Pam - good post... and Churchill did too whilst in office: suffering a major, acute stroke in June 1953 which caused left hemiparesis. The stroke was largely kept secret from the public, with his family and private secretary working to conceal his illness. Despite the severity of the stroke, Churchill made a remarkable recovery and was able to return to his duties, including giving a significant speech at the Conservative party conference just 3 months later... Tom
Sending you love ❤️ don't let your health issues get the best of you. I can relate, I almost lost hope due to the horrible conditions i was into but it was only the natural route I followed Dr Miracle that gave me another reason to smile again. I spend less and am currently heal and healthy for years now Dr Miracle is the right person to meet for help there are lots of useful informations you will find Dr Miracle Herbal home
Stroke survivor Dr Tom Director of ARNI Charity UK recovering his functional grip strength using the principle of timed carry of heavy, awkward objects. To put in rehab terms, the liquid in the barrel sloshes from one end to another during each step. This was extremely HARD to complete - places the fingers on the barrel tines with a climber's grip and forces the person to hang on throughout
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Thanks so much guys! Yes, I look pretty desperate for a pint in that pic 😉 (actually, been teetotal since my late twenties) 😉 T
I wish I could do this .
My Favourite picture of Tom in action 👍🏽
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“If we put exercise into a drug, it would be one of the most effective medications to prevent vascular disease and treat patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases including stroke.” Yep. This statement is reinforced by the finding that exercise interventions are significantly more effective than drugs in both rehabilitation and reducing the odds of mortality among stroke survivors.
Chronic inactivity related to stroke basically has a whole load of physiological consequences that result in cardiovascular deconditioning, increased cardiovascular risk and increased mortality and morbidity risk.
The majority of survivors are cardiovascularly unfit. It has been found that due to the effects of stroke, you can even be rendered half as cardiovascularly fit compared to someone who has not had a stroke.
This can be worsened by a pre-existing cardiovascular condition, such as hypertension, congestive heart failure, peripheral vascular disease, or pulmonary and metabolic diseases. This is bad news. The good news is that evidence now also suggests that your exercise train-ability may be comparable, in many ways, to that of your age-matched healthy counterparts.
Despite the fact that the energy expenditure required for you to perform walking varies with the degree of weakness, spasticity, training, and AFO usage.. and is elevated by one and a half to two times that of non-stroke subjects…you can increase your cardiovascular fitness by a magnitude that is similar to that of healthy adults who engage in endurance training programmes. Improving aerobic fitness may allow you to carry out everyday activities with less effort and for longer periods.
You’ve got to be active, right? Another crucial factor: there is growing evidence that exercise promotes brain neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity mediates cognition and the relearning of motor skills and other skills after stroke. Brains learn what they do. Remember, the brain loves repetition. Cardiovascular exercise is repetition.
For such adaptation to happen optimally, you must be prepared to do focused work with whatever movement you possess (with some caveats, to be explained shortly), even if you believe you have none at all. Over and over again, with as much attention to detail as you can.
The take-home from this is that I want you now to think of yourself as a CREATIVE stroke survivor. Take walking. Repetitions are required but ALSO you need to set goals and targets (actually, like me, you’ll find these are fast-moving targets): to get away from supports like wheelchairs, frames and sticks as soon as possible, to go further, to go for set distances, to feel less tired each time, to ramp up the quality of your walking by focusing on how you walk, to walk over different surfaces, to walk with an AFO and without, to tackle stairs, etc. etc.
Time to make a move! Get professional help if you need or ‘go-it-alone’. If you are setting up to ‘retrain’ by yourself, when attempting walking practice, dependent on your presentation, at least collar a young and strong family member or friend to help you. No-one will mind, especially when they see you making a darned good effort. The world is yours.
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The best thing you can do is to try to use your hand religiously for as many things as you can reasonably do every day without going insane.
If you need help to get going give us a call on 0203 053 0111, or email support@arni.uk.com to find out if there's a trainer near you who can work with you.
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Have you ever heard the term ‘cryptogenic stroke’? 🤔 A cryptogenic stroke is a bit of a mystery: 1 in 3 ischemic strokes are this type where, even after extensive testing, doctors can't find a definitive cause.
‘Cryptogenic’ comes from Greek and means ‘of hidden origin’. It can be frustrating for both patients and doctors when the cause isn't clear. Even with a hidden cause, it's just as serious as any other stroke. So why can't doctors find the cause?
It might be because of a subtle issue that's hard to detect such as a hidden heart issue like a patent foramen ovale (PFO), an irregular heartbeat such as atrial fibrillation (Afib), that only happens sometimes and isn't picked up on a short-term monitor or a small blood clot from a large artery that isn't severe enough to be a clear cause or a blood clotting disorder that makes your blood more prone to clotting.
If you or a loved one has had a cryptogenic stroke, working closely with your ARNI trainer is key. The goal is to monitor your health and manage risk factors to prevent another stroke.
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My daughter had a massive ischemic stroke at 20 years old. They did extensive testing to try to find the cause including putting her under and looking all around her heart. More blood tests than you could imagine. Nothing was ever found. Non smoker, non drinker, no drugs ever. Also, interesting fact- she had severe fibromyalgia prior to her stroke and zero fibromyalgia symptoms after. We always thought that was interesting but none of her Drs did?
Here's a great review of Had a stroke? What now? book by Tom Balchin
This is a really great book for stroke survivors, their families, and people working in the field of stroke care. It provides very concise and accessible information about stroke and is written with positivity and optimism that should motivate anyone wishing to improve their function. It includes lots of practical strategies and exercises as well as very current information about the latest developments in the field of stroke recovery. I am currently training to help stroke survivors and I can highly recommend it!
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Thanks Gabi and Lucky! 😉 😉 T
The best book :)Thanks Tom :)
Thanks tom
Breaking news from the world of stroke recovery! 🧠🔬 Researchers at the University of Zurich have achieved a major breakthrough in a new study.
In their landmark work, they have successfully used stem cell transplantation to reverse stroke damage in mice, showing incredible results that could one day transform recovery for humans.
The transplanted stem cells not only grew into new neurons and blood vessels but also reduced inflammation and helped rebuild the blood-brain barrier. Most excitingly, the treated mice regained motor functions they had lost, proving that meaningful recovery and brain regeneration are possible.
While this research is still in its early stages and a step away from human trials for stroke, it offers a huge glimmer of hope for the future of regenerative medicine. This may be one of those landmark moments in science; ARNI Stroke Rehab UK will be watching closely as this work progresses! 🙏💖
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Hi Karen; goodness me - yes, people with MS do have a higher susceptibility to having a stroke don;t they; I'm so sorry this happened to you... how are you doing at the moment and can ARNI help in any way? All the best, Tom
Hope solutions is coming
Every journey starts with a first step. Let's hope this continues to be successful.
Amazing, I hope it will happen soon
This is uplifting news.
That's amazing news well done to science.please god. soon 🙏best news I've heard in long time .
This is freaking amazing! I would love to do the trial!
🤞really exciting 🙏
I hope they find something quick I’m still waiting on a cure for MS to happen I was diagnosed with it 19 Years ago, had a Stroke April 2024 so🤞
That is fantastic news
Unfortunately I doubt this will be available on the NHS and will only be available if you pay for it privately.
Wow … how exciting …
My neurologist told me about this 6 years ago. Still in the early stages huh
I envy the mice that took the trial.
I took part in the stem cell trial in Nottingham 6 months after I had my stroke I was the youngest one to take part and the only one of child bearing age and I’ve not had any good effects from it or bad but the way I saw it I had nothing to lose and everything to gain xx
My neighbor had stem cell treatment for MS and now she’s walking without her canes.
It rejuvenate's tissue. But does it re juvenate? Nerve sells
Wow absolutely brilliant 👏. I would happily be a trial brain after having a large left cerebellum stroke Nov 24 .
I'll volunteer for any human trial studies
I thought you couldn’t get stem cells over the blood brain barrier, unless it was very shortly after the stroke had occurred, when the blood brain barrier was compromised. Very happy to be proved wrong!!!
Is there trials we can put our names down for?
if only we still had science here in the US of A, I might feel some semblance of hope. Sadly, science is illegal now...
I have followed stem cell therapy since my stroke!!! I mentioned this to my specialist she practically laughed in my face and made me feel completely humiliated 😢my brain damage is huge would go anywhere to get it 🙏
2.5 years in. Starting to get steps and left arm movement back. Would love to be part of a trial getting left sided vision back is a dream
I have said this for years. We human's have advance 10 fold, so why can't we do this!