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🧠 Post-stroke recovery is a marathon, not a sprint, and the ARNI approach is helping survivors take control! 🏃♀️💪 Our personalised, home-based training uses repetitive, task-specific exercises to leverage neuroplasticity for improved lower and upper limb function. 🧠✨
Your ARNI instructor🙋♀️ will help you work on functional tasks tailored to your goals, like picking up meaningful objects ☕️📚 and you'll also learn vital physical coping strategies for building resilience and confidence, like how to safely get up from the floor. 🤸♀️ Plus, they'll guide you through stroke-specific resistance training to build strength and stability.🏋️
For self-training, you can most definitely become your own champion! 🦸♀️ ARNI encourages survivors to create a dedicated training spot at home. 🏡 It's all about high-repetition practice of the ‘real tasks’ you've worked on with your instructor, integrated into your daily life. 🗓️ A training diary keeps you focused and helps track your amazing progress. 📈
And many survivors who engage with ARNI find that the best part of their guided retraining is they're encouraged not to waste money: that free or low-cost equipment is everywhere! 💡 You can use simple household items like a cup or a towel to build strength and improve hand function. ☕️🧻 And get yourself a ‘rehabby hobby’ as Dr Tom Balchin, the ARNI founder terms it.. it's the secret to consistent long-term gainz, especially for upper limb progress 🖐️
This amazing combination of expert guidance and self-reliance is what makes the ARNI approach so powerful for long-term recovery ✨💖
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ARNI Stroke Rehab has found out that at a few of its sites, NHS is currently running pilot programmes in new models of community-based rehab for stroke survivors to address recognised variations in post-hospital stroke care. Initial insights from the pilot sites offer examples of these evolving models:
Northamptonshire: In addition to standard physical therapy, it incorporates psychological support and vocational rehabilitation services. This model reflects a holistic understanding of stroke recovery, prioritising psychosocial well-being and sustainable community reintegration.
North Central London: This site is deploying mobile rehabilitation teams to deliver intensive therapy directly to survivors in their homes. This approach aims to maximise therapy intensity and consistency, potentially improving motor learning and functional recovery by facilitating practice within the survivor’s natural environment.
Northumbria: The Northumbria pilot prioritises the provision of psychological support and the establishment of peer networks. This focus acknowledges that the emotional and social impacts of stroke are significant contributors to recovery outcomes. By fostering peer support, the programme seeks to reduce isolation and enhance emotional resilience among survivors and their caregivers.
These pilot initiatives are basically, as far as ARNI Stroke Rehab can tell, about the evaluating these innovative delivery models to develop an evidence base for providing more intensive, personalised and holistic care to stroke survivors, which can only be a good thing if the pilots actually translate to sustainable services going forward ;)
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Today's tip - walk five steps, ten 10 steps, looking only at one point on the wall ahead of you. Don't worry when you look down again , your feet will really still be there.
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Introducing ARNI Stroke Rehab UK Instructors, who are trained to use functional strategies that help stroke survivors take charge of their own recovery. There are over 140 active ARNI instructors available around the country to pair with people: this is done by calling the ARNI Stroke Rehab Charity.
Research has shown that ARNI community-based training programmes are overwhelmingly positive, helping survivors find purpose and improve function long after their formal therapy ends.
A trial a few years ago, funded by the Stroke Association down at Exeter University, also investigated an ARNI-based programme and found it to be safe and acceptable for participants. It's about getting back to real life with practical coping strategies and building resilience.
For example, survivors learn get up safely from the floor on their own after a fall; a skill that restores so much lost confidence and facilitates survivors to become independent again. It's the gatekeeper skill to learn after stroke 🙏💪💖
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If you give the office a call on 0203 053 0111 or email support@arni.uk.com they'll be able to tell you if there's an instructor near you who can help you with your recovery.
How do I set this up where I live?
Introducing BrainQ's therapeutic system! 🧠💫 This wearable, cloud-connected system uses AI to deliver frequency-tuned, low-intensity electromagnetic fields to the brain, aiming to enhance and accelerate recovery. It's designed to be used in the comfort of your own home, making consistent therapy more accessible than ever before. 🏡💖
This isn't your average rehab device; it's precision neurotherapeutics at work. The AI analyses brain activity to map out the unique needs of the survivor, creating a tailored treatment plan that targets specific neural networks, promoting neuroplasticity and helping restore function. 💪✨
Clinical trials have shown some promising results with patients experiencing significant reductions in disability and improved functional independence. In fact, one study suggested that patients using the system were three times more likely to achieve ‘freedom from disability’ compared to standard care alone. The best part? The therapy can be started within weeks of a stroke, extending the crucial window of opportunity for recovery. ⏱️
While this system won’t be a substitute for traditional rehabilitation therapy, it will hopefully provide a powerful supplement, bridging the gap between hospital care and long-term recovery at home. It’s an exciting step forward in stroke rehab, offering new possibilities for regaining independence and quality of life.
Please note that this innovative tech is currently still in research phase and is awaiting broader regulatory approval. So, it’s future tech for us, but ARNI Stroke Rehab UK reckons it’s an incredible story of how AI can be harnessed – and will be coming to the market in a few years. 💖🚀
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Be creative. There is no excuse for NOT retraining in some way. If you want to, you will find a way. If you don't really want to you will find an excuse.
Not sure what todo? Call us on 0203 053 0111 or email support@arni.uk.com to find out if there's an ARNI trainer near you who can help you.
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Good morning. A thought for you.....
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Exercise: The No-weight Squat.
There is a view of squats by many of the public, driven I’m sure by the magazines and other media, that squats are all about huge weights placed on the shoulders. Not true! In fact, you won’t be doing any of that as a stroke survivor, for many good reasons. For a start, there are lots of ways to do leg strength training that are very challenging and will build good functionality in the legs without weight. For example, this exercise right here is simply a ‘deep knee bend’, which was its original name before the term ‘squat’ was coined.
You don’t have to go as deep as parallel for squats to be really effective. But you do need to do them for them to be effective!
Find out more in The Successful Stroke Survivor book by Tom Balchin
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I do weighted squats every day using dumb bells
A Powerful message direct from your brain after stroke:
Hello
This is your brain talking. I had to find some way to communicate with you. I feel like I barely survived WWIII and am still not quite all in one piece. That's why I need you. I need you to take care of me.
As time passes and you and I feel better and better, people, even doctors, will tell you that we are fine, "it's time to get on with life." That sounds good to me and probably even better to you. But before you go rushing back out into that big wide world, I need you to listen to me, really listen. Don't shut me out. Don't tune me out. When I'm getting into trouble, I'll need your help more than I ever have before.
I know that you want to believe that we are going to be the same. I'll do my best to make that happen. The problem is that too many people in our situation get impatient and try to rush the healing process; or when their brains can't fully recover, they deny it and, instead of adapting, they force their brains to function in ways they are no longer able too. Some people even push their brains until they seize, and worse... I'm scared. I'm afraid that you will do that to me. If you don't accept me, I am lost. We both will be lost.
How can I tell you how much I need you now? I need you to accept me as I am today... not for what I used to be, or what I might be in the future. So many people are so busy looking at what their brains used to do, as if past accomplishments were a magical yardstick to measure present success or failures, that they fail to see how far their brains have come. It's as if here is shame, or guilt, in being injured. Silly, huh?
Please don't be embarrassed or feel guilt, or shame, because of me. We are okay. We have made it this far. If you work with me, we can make it even further. I can't say how far. I won't make any false promises. I can only promise you this, that I will do my best.
What I need you to do is this: because neither of us knows how badly I've been hurt (things are still a little foggy for me), or how much I will recover, or how quickly, please go s-l-o-w-l-y when you start back trying to resume your life. If I give you a headache, or make you sick to your stomach, or make you unusually irritable, or confused, or disoriented, or afraid, or make you feel that you are overdoing it, I'm trying to get your attention in the only way I can. Stop and listen to me.
I get exhausted easily since being hurt, and cannot succeed when overworked. I want to succeed as much as you do. I want to be as well as I can be, but I need to do it at a different pace than I could before I got hurt. Help me to help us by paying attention and heeding the messages I send to you.
I will do my part to do my very best to get us back on our feet. I am a little worried though that if I am not exactly the same... you will reject me and may even want to kill us. Other people have wanted to kill their brains, and some people have succeeded. I don't want to die, and I don't want you to die.
I want us to live, and breath and be, even if being is not the same as it was. Different may be better. It may be harder too, but I don't want you to give up. Don't give up on me. Don't give up on yourself. Our time here isn't through yet. There are things that I want to do and I want to try, even if trying has to be done in a different way. It isn't easy. I have to work very hard, much harder, and I know that you do too. I see people scoff, and misunderstand. I don't care. What I do care about is that you understand how hard I am working and how much I want to be as good as I can be, but I need you to take good care of us, as well as you can do that.
Don't be ashamed of me. We are alive. We are still here. I want the chance to try to show you what we are made of. I want to show you the things that are really important in life. We have been given another chance to be better, to learn what is really important. When it is finally time for our final exit I would like to look back and feel good about what we made of us and out of everything that made up our life, including this injury. I cannot do it without you. I cannot do it if you hate me for the way being injured has affected me and our life together. Please try not to be bitter in grief. That would crush me.
Please don't reject me. There is little I can do without you, without your determination to not give up. Take good care of us and of yourself. I need you very much, especially now.
Love, your wounded brain
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