Plasticity will be 'kicked into high gear'' when your brain perceives new information as particularly important... and when your training is frequently repeated.
If you need some help with your recovery then call us on 0203 053 0111 or email support@arni.uk.com. We have trainers throughout the country who can help you.
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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Zoom based ARNI Instructor training course; starts on September 20, 2025
ARNI runs the ONLY FUNCTIONAL REHABILITATION & EXERCISE TRAINING QUALIFICATION CURRENTLY AVAILABLE IN THE UK which teaches experienced therapists and exercise instructors how to continue the rehabilitation path of stroke and other acquired brain injury survivor.
You will learn how to teach things that stroke survivors really want, and will ask you for help with. With this CPD you will be ready to meet the full needs of a referred client.
Functional rehabilitation & exercise training after stroke taught by ARNI is characterised by: essential upper and lower limb task practice in order to recover action control, innovative physical coping strategies in order to perform ADLs independently… and appropriate stroke-specific cardiovascular and resistance training.
Enrol now!!
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The Princess Royal and Dr Tom (and family) at Buckingham Palace
So well deserved - doesn't our Dr Tom Balchin OBE look smart!
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Notice from Attend ABI Newsletter: Dr Tom Balchin, the founder of the Action for Rehabilitation from Neurological Injury (ARNI) Charity, was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the New Year’s Honours List for Services to Functional Rehabilitation after Stroke. Receiving this from The Princess Royal at Buckingham Palace on 27th March 2025, with his wife and two children present, was the very greatest of honours for Dr Balchin. He has said that he is: ‘… very proud to receive it on behalf of all the stroke survivors, families, trustees, trainers, staff, volunteers and friends in the universities, hospitals and clinics who have supported me to evolve the Charity from a strong desire to help others in my situation into a national force.’
Well Done Dr Tom .. so pleased your work has been recognised x
Congratulations Dr Tom, so well deserved xx
Very well deserved Dr Tom Balchin OBE! Keep up the good work.
Fantastic!! Well done Tom
Congratulations Tom x
Congratulations Tom 👏 You are a true inspiration to us all.
Congratulations Tom , amazing work
Congratulations, Tom. You have helped so many people and it’s good to see your work publicly honoured.
Congratulations
Congratulations Tom ! Well deserved!
Well done Tom!!! 🙌🥂
Well deserved buddy
A fitting recognition and appreciation of so much work and dedication over so many years. Congratulations Tom x
Amazing well done Tom, well deserved!
Congratulations. Well done. Well deserved. You are an inspiration to all survivors
Congratulations Tom👍👍👍
Congratulations Tom👏
Congratulations Tom!!
Congratulations and thank you for all your support and teaching on stroke. 🙏🏻
Many congratulations Tom. Your impact through ARNI has been incredible.
Congratulations Tom
So much appreciation for how his work has helped so many of us stroke survivors go beyond survival to living
Congratulations Tom :) Well deserved:)
This is the complete lower-body retraining system. This book is Volume 4 in the series of 5 taken from best-selling book The Successful Stroke Survivor by Tom Balchin. It contains strategies for lower-body training complimented by hundreds of illustrations.
You can keep the Kindle with you to check as you exercise.
What kinds of strategies are shown? Many stroke survivors would like to be able to learn how to get down and up from the floor without support, balance better and walk properly without a stick, control drop-foot and regain strength in the back and front of the ‘bad’ leg. This manual takes you from an easy-to-learn ‘sit to stand’ strategy through all sorts of functional movement techniques such as retraining the ability to cope with a fall, innovative balance training, retraining the ability to turn on the spot, widening your stance laterally and retraining the ability to tackle steps. Great emphasis is placed on retraining lower body strength via using your own bodyweight.
In this manual there is more than enough for everyone, however well (or not) you have recovered from stroke to date, You might choose to do 5 things. Or just one thing.
IT WILL WORK, IF YOU DO.
#neuroplasticity #ARNIstroke #neurorehab #strokeexercise #strokerecovery #arnistroke #strokerehabilitation #strokesurvivors #strokelowerbodyexercises
Lower Body Rehab - Self-help Resource Manual (The Successful Stroke Survivor Book 4)
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This book is Volume 4 in the series of 5 taken from best-selling book and manual The Successful Stroke Survivor by Tom Balchin. The 5 Volumes are all that those who have suffered a stroke and have rea...This is the Integrated Stroke Delivery Networks national update - ARNI inside: sway.cloud.microsoft/9gJVwSteTWDMqVEM?ref=email
An underappreciated (!) key to stroke recovery is get moving with doing something if you're just doing nothing. Very profound 😉
If you want someone to help you we have trainers throughout the country. Call us on 0203 053 0111 or email support@arni.uk.com to find out if there's one near you who can help you with your recovery.
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ARNI’s motto collection:
• Without your involvement in movement there won't be improvement. Tom says you can have that phrase 'on him'!
Use it or you’ll lose it! If there is a will, there is a way!
• Use it and improve it! With practice it will get better.
• Practice what you want to improve. With a really high number of repetitions.
Our goal is to prove to stroke survivors that their recovery can be successful with the help of the ARNI method. With ARNI, the survivor receives a tool an overall intervention 'map' that aims to show you how to adjust your rehab at any time and why.
How can we help you?
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ARNI has a Zoom-based speech and language service for the public with specialist SLT colleagues. . If you have aphasia, you will find it hard to say what you’re thinking (expressive) or understand the spoken word (receptive). It can also affect your reading and writing skills. Aphasia occurs in as many as 40% of stroke survivors, making it the most common communication disorder caused by stroke, but many people conquer aphasia completely.
#arnistrokecharity #stroke #strokesurvivors #neuroplasticity #aphasia #aphasiatherapy #speechandlanguagetherapy #SpeechAndLanguage
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As you know, the descriptor 'Acquired Brain Injury' most often refers to these three (most major) conditions: head injury, stroke and brain tumour.
The economic costs to the UK of Acquired Brain Injury have just been costed today estimated £43.0bn annually. But we know the costs are far higher and for the first time, colleagues at UKABIF have estimated the wellbeing impacts on patients, carers and families.
The cost estimates are conservative, and don’t include many of the costs associated with homelessness, addiction services, mental health services and psychiatric stays. Both economic costs and wellbeing costs have been calculated using the methodology from the HMT Green Book and supplementary guidance.
This means that the calculations are consistent with those used for policy analysis across the UK government. The cost to the NHS and welfare services is huge, with costs quickly amassing across an individual’s acute hospital stay, community NHS support and longer-term social care provision. Much of this could be prevented if we invested in a statutory Right to Rehab.
The Ministry of Defence already do this, and the recovery time for military personnel is much quicker than for civilians. Some of this experience is being developed at the new National Centre for Rehabilitation (NRC), but they will only treat a few hundred of the most acute patients. We need to learn the lessons from their business model and develop a national community framework for neurorehabilitation to save significant long term costs in education, welfare, the justice system, homelessness provision and the NHS.
#righttorehab #braininjuryawareness
This is just published; it's the 'The Right to Rehab' report. Unfortunately it's not published online (yet?) but just email me on tom@arni.uk.com and I'll send you the pdf ok?
