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Training with Tom DVD
Real-life training on the mat with Dr Tom. He takes a stroke survivor through a training session.. This DVD is where many of the exercises, techniques and strategies will really come to life for you as you see how they work together, if practised carefully and with some dedication, to produce a trainee who is totally transformed in terms of action control, strength and confidence in the ability to move and function normally in society again.
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DR TOM BALCHIN RECEIVES OBE IN NEW YEARS HONOURS -
Fantastic news! Congratulations 🎊🎉🎈
Well deserved Dr Tom!
Brilliant News - congratulations Tom! I'm so pleased that your dedication and hard work has been formally recognised.
Congratulations Tom, what a well deserved honour for an extremely talented man who has contributed at a very high level to Rehabilitation for people post stroke.
Many congratulations Tom, richly deserved.
What an achievement!!! Massive congratulations Tom👏👏👏
Congratulations Tom .. SO well deserved .. Hope you’re celebrating in style xx
Amazing! And well deserved! Congratulations 👏🏻
Excellent news, well deserved, changes people lives,
Amazing news ,huge congratulations
Congratulations Tom , well deserved 👏
Congratulations, amazing news!
Congratulations Tom x
Many congratulations to Tom x
Congratulations Tom. 👏
Outstanding many many congratulations 👏🏻
Oh wow that’s amazing. Congratulations Tom well deserved xx
Congrats Tom
Congrats Tom!
Awesome well done Tom 😎
Fantastic! Congratulations Tom , well deserved !!
Amazing, congratulations Tom😊😊
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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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
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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If you do the maths - it's true!
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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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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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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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