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First 2025 Instructor Qualification Training course starts on 25th January
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In the news today.....
This is an article about a tool that enables stroke survivors to engage in rehabilitation in an enjoyable, comprehensive, and inclusive manner; that accounts for the wide range of potential post-stroke impairments.
Co-cook is a digital platform comprising an app and accompanying assistive grips, designed to tackle the support gap in stroke patients following their discharge from hospital. It enables stroke survivors to work with their family/carers towards rehabilitation by cooking.
Does it appeal to you??
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Why we need to better consider families and the home ecosystem in stroke rehabilitation
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In the UK, someone has a stroke every 5 minutes. Most survivors return home following their time in hospital and are faced with establishing an entirely new normal. Of the 1.3 million stroke survivors...
Always remember this.
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Neuroplasticity is best activated through repetition. Meaning, when a skill is highly practiced, neuroplasticity strengthens the neural pathways for that skill. This is how you can work towards recovery during life after stroke. The more a skill is practiced, the higher the chances of strengthening neural connections for that skill and restoring function.
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If you aren’t motivated to exercise, then you won’t see results (sorry!). So be sure to choose stroke exercises and/or equipment that you find meaningful and motivating!
If you're planning an activity, put it in your diary. That way it's already on your mind, and you're much more likely to do it. Why not tell someone what you're going to do, so they can ask you about it later? It might help you stick to your plan if you know someone is interested in what you're doing.
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Thought of the day........
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The ARNI Approach to stroke recovery encompasses:
Task-related functional movement training
Physical coping strategies
Stroke-specific resistance training
The design of self-recovery programmes with the aim of self-reliance
The programme offers a tailored training regime for each individual, which revolves around functional movement with task-related exercises. ARNI will teach you the importance of encouraging brain plasticity with the practice that you do.
This approach is completely unique; it has been designed specifically for the needs of the stroke survivor with who feels that they cannot find any way to recuperate further using more traditional approaches.
Traditional therapy has for many years now been challenged by evidence revealing that task specific strength training and exercises, aquatic therapy, CIMT, intensive partial weight bearing treadmill, orthoses (particularly active orthoses using FES), and the establishment of some helpful, functional and temporary compensatory modes may be more effective methods to focus on. And that higher repetition rates (where appropriate and possible, where the survivor is active rather than passive during training) has the power to drive neuroplasticity.
As the training is so personalised it offers a unique chance to benefit from ‘retraining’ that is normally inaccessible to the average stroke survivor.
The ARNI Institute exists for YOU. We know that, by accessing our UK Instructors, you should expect over time to:
1. Correct your balance and posture
2. Improve your co-ordination and timing
3. Increase your flexibility and stamina
4. Increase your muscular, tendon and ligament strength
5. Increase your confidence and remove your fear of the consequences of exercising
6. Increase your ability to perform everyday tasks and progressively more self-sufficient
7. Become productive in an occupation or past-time
7. Increase your self-esteem and be happy with life
Call us on 0203 053 0111 or email support@arni.uk.com to find out if there's an instructor near you who can work with you on your recovery.
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The optimal timing for rehabilitation and intensity of treatment remains unclear. Research scientists are currently trying to determine the best time after stroke for intensive motor training and others are investigating the effect of early and intensive therapy on upper extremity motor recovery.
The evidence is starting to show that that that physical therapy can have a significant impact on body structure and the function of the upper extremity at all periods post-stroke. So, please try to pay little attention to anyone making the point that your ‘time window’ has either fully closed or is about to fully close from now on and let’s crack straight on with working very hard at your recovery.
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Spasticity (high tone) A common physical response to brain injury caused by your stroke, spasticity can cause muscles in your arms or legs to tighten uncontrollably, causing pain and discomfort. Spasticity in one or more of your limbs is muscle shortening caused by damage to the portion of your brain or spinal cord that controls voluntary movement. Certain muscles (such as the finger flexors) can become continuously contracted. Spasticity is dependent on the speed with which muscles are moved. So, the faster a sudden, passive stretch is made, the faster your resistance to it will be. Symptoms may include hypertonicity hypertonicity (increased muscle tone), clonus (a series of rapid muscle contractions), exaggerated deep tendon reflexes, muscle spasms, scissoring (involuntary crossing of the legs), and fixed joints. The degree of spasticity varies from mild muscle stiffness to severe, painful, and uncontrollable spasms.
From The Successful Stroke Survivor book by Tom Balchin
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