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Tom says 'Life will never be the same for anyone who has survived a stroke, but successful survivors are those who can accept the reality of their new situations with a positive attitude. As such they are able to try to live each day productively, with as much creativity and fulfilment as possible within the new boundaries imposed by stroke. If you’ve hired a therapist or trainer to get you started (advised), you must have maximal input towards your own rehabilitation and the way you want to go, and feel able to ask for it if you’re not getting it. Activity is the watchword!'
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This picture is from The Successful Stroke Survivor book. It explains who this book is for. Get your copy today and you can get going on the exercises you need.
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It's true isn't it?
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Remember goals are just goals. They are important but not inflexible and carved in stone. Rather they are targets, which are appropriate for your new lifestyle of relative limitations, which you must strive hard to achieve. But you must be open to possibilities of change according to the individual nature of your limitations and, of course, your growing capabilities as you rehabilitate.
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Your brain is healing itself through neuroplasticity; which is how your brain rewires itself and forms new neural connections.
Consistent stimulation is the best way to rewire your brain. Without consistency, the new connections in your brain can start to weaken and you might lose all of your hard work.
If you work on your rehabilitation each day, you will see big results over the long-run.
Newed someone to help you? Call us on 0203 053 0111 or email support@arni.uk.com to find out if there's trainer near you who can help.
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This is from a few years ago. Still good though.
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Try this if you are unsure of your ability to get down onto the floor from standing. The idea is that you are building up your confidence to attempt to move to the floor smoothly, safely and in control.
You need to be standing balanced on two feet for this fundamental exercise. This is a starter exercise to get you to feel confident about going down onto the floor. Reach down with your good hand to the front side of your good foot and try to touch the floor with your fingertip, and straighten up again. You can lower your hips and bend at the knees as much as you like. Don’t worry. You may not be able to get even half-way there! Depending on your age, time from injury, degree of rehabilitation so far and many other factors, This can be easy or may require considerable courage to contemplate doing. However, please persist. Try to get close to touching the floor. Do this technique over and again until you have it worked out really well.
If you like this post then please share it with others. Each time that you share a post, you can directly help other people – as who knows which people in the world might find us and gain, either directly from the charity or simply by being able to copy an ‘innovative and useful’ move/trick of the trade that might help them manage after stroke.
Every time you share, you could directly help someone – as knowledge is power ;)
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CIMT (constraint induced movement therapy) is a beneficial treatment option to use in conjunction with other rehabilitation. It is useful in that it can be performed at any stage of stroke recovery and it can be performed in any setting after being assessed and the principals of treatment outlined by a therapist. CIMT can be goal directed and patient specific so it focuses on individual patient’s objectives, which can mean that stroke survivors are kept motivated and enthusiastic as they have set their own goals which they want to achieve. However for CIMT to be effective, stroke survivors need to adhere to the duration and frequency of the treatment, to ensure the best chance of neuroplasticity to take place. For neuroplasticity to happen stroke survivors need to be dedicated and positive to the concept and getting family and friends involved seems to be a good way to keep motivation and support ongoing. Regularly recording outcome measures will also show any progress that has been made and can allow the stroke survivor to review their goals and treatment options.
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Retraining the ability to turn If you walk along in one line, at some point or another, you’ve probably got to turn round again. This turning point can be an area where a stroke survivor can be very unsure on his or her feet, which means that this can also can be a point where a fall could take place. Very simply, the more you walk, the better you should get at coping with the unexpected problems faced when walking. But you are still vulnerable when you are changing direction. Instead of either leaning on something to help yourself turn, or shuffling around, and perhaps taking about 3 or 4 steps with each foot (the two most common strategies I see being used), you should learn how to pivot. Pivoting is the practice of sweeping one foot round and taking it off the floor whilst keeping the other on the ground as the centre of rotation.
I will show you a few good ways to turn, using the pivot. For the stroke survivor, the affected foot needs to be the pivot foot. This remains in location and the other foot, the sweeping foot, moves to a new location. The pivot foot is the centre of rotation and the heel of that foot comes slightly off the floor, so that the pivot is on the ball of the foot. This prevents the knee from suffering torsion, since the pivot actually occurs at the hip.
If you stay flat-footed (as stroke survivors are often forced to do because of injury) your knee will undergo torque. Which you don’t want. You may move the sweeping foot to the front or rear: called a front or rear pivot. The key for the pivot is that you become momentarily one-legged whilst you turn. Following are two techniques: one to turn 90 degrees and another to turn 180 degrees quickly and simply. Before you attempt these, however, here’s a movement that you can explore: the floor stab. It is designed to help your body understand that it is the fairly extreme change in hip-angle and direction of the good foot that you must produce via momentum that will allow the effortless pivot, particularly in the 180 degree turn. Building up proficiency in walking will bring gains in turns of increased ability to cope with sudden changes in stability.
Find out more in The Successful Stroke Survivor book by Tom Balchin
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There are ALWAYS ways for stroke survivors to strength train without needing a gym - ARNI Director Dr Tom shows how it's done! ;) www.arni.uk.com
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Absolutely