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The series of three trunk twists – midline, lowline, and highline - is not designed to encourage compensatory reaching movements from the trunk, shoulder or elbow. Rather, it is an action control activity designed to remind you where you are in space.
The exercise has the potential to activate and strengthen your ‘stabiliser muscles’. Everyday activities, like picking up a bag of shopping or walking up steps, require the body to balance and steady itself, which in turn requires strong stabilisation abilities.
Find out more in The Successful Stroke Survivor book by Tom Balchin.
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Could a mini-stroke leave lasting fatigue? A new study finds that people who have this type of stroke may also have prolonged fatigue lasting up to one year.
Dr Modrau at the Aalborg University Hospital and his team's study (published in Neurology®) shows that TIA, also known as a mini-stroke (typically defined as a temporary blockage of blood flow to the brain that causes symptoms that go away within a day), does not prove that mini-strokes cause lasting fatigue; it only shows an association.
People with a transient ischemic attack can have symptoms such as face drooping, arm weakness or slurred speech and these resolve within a day. However, a significant number report continued challenges including reduced quality of life, thinking problems, depression, anxiety and fatigue.
The study, involving 354 people with an average age of 70 who had a mini-stroke, were followed for a year. Researchers looked at how many participants experienced fatigue as defined as a score of 12 or higher. Of the participants, 61% experienced fatigue two weeks after the mini-stroke and 54% experienced fatigue at each of the three other testing time periods at three, six and 12.
It was found that for some people, fatigue was a common symptom that lasted up to one year after the transient ischemic attack.
ARNI Rehab says: for future studies, people diagnosed with a transient ischemic attack should be followed in the weeks and months that follow to be assessed for lingering fatigue. This could help researchers better understand who might struggle with fatigue long-term and require further care.
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This article says that as well as slowly improving your memory, exercise can have a more immediate impact on memory formation.
The part of the brain that responds strongly to aerobic exercise is the hippocampus. Experiments show that this brain structure grows as people get fitter. Since the hippocampus is at the core of the brain’s learning and memory systems, this finding partly explains the memory-boosting effects of improved cardiovascular fitness.
So get exercising!
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How physical exercise makes your brain work better
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Research shows different activities have quite specific mental effects – here’s how moving your body could sharpen your ideas
Tips for progression with walking
Walk round your house, walk outside if you can; depending on your environment, try building up distances, or count to 10 steps, turn around and go back. It is important as a stroke survivor that you don’t use your lack of mobility as an excuse for immobility. Don’t stop at just walking in a straight line either. Walk around an imaginary circle on the floor. Do lots of these. Stop, turn, and walk around the other way. Then repeat without losing your balance. Even experiment with one or two backwards steps, but only one or two!
Taken from The Successful Stroke Survivor book by Tom Balchin
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One of the most important things to do after stroke — and never stop doing until you’ve reached your fullest recovery — is rehab exercise. Rehab exercise helps rewire the brain and improve mobility long-term. When survivors fail to do rehab exercises, their mobility may deteriorate and they can see a regression in function. To avoid backsliding, keep up with rehab consistently.
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This happened to me NHS said I was in such remarkable shape that just getting on with life would do Think I've missed the boat now
How to retrain around the limitations of stroke - a 7 DVD set that many have found very useful indeed - this contains many of the core ARNI techniques ;)
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Be task focussed! Do a stretch then do something challenging and functional with the stretch. For example, stretch then try to pick up a hairbrush and put it into a cupboard, drawer or on a shelf.
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Excersises for lifting arm against.gravity?
Consistency is the name of the game. You should just think about being there to do a 'job of work', whatever your age. 45 minutes out of a day and you're done. You're there to focus 100% for the duration of your daily exercise sessions.
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One way to encourage muscle activation and gain arm movement after stroke is through weight-bearing exercise. This can be done while sitting or standing and involves placing your affected forearm or hand on a surface and gradually putting some of your weight through it. This helps to provide input from your arm to your brain to rewire their connection through neuroplasticity.
Weight-bearing can be easily incorporated into many of your normal daily activities. For example, try leaning on your affected arm while it is on the countertop during teeth brushing, on the armrest of your chair while chatting, or on the table while you’re playing cards. By doing this, you can be activating neuroplasticity and promoting recovery throughout your daily routine to help you regain arm use after stroke.
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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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‘Mum had severe aphasia after suffering a dense stroke which has also left her unable to walk, with her right side paralysed. We were terribly disappointed by the lack of therapy she received to dat...Hi Susan Gale - oh, I'm so VERY GLAD!! (Olivia is an excellent SLT, isn't she? Tom
The Telerehab is wonderful. Really helping our daughter.