So, the latest data reveals that there's going to be a substantial escalation in stroke prevalence among women (worldwide) over the coming quarter century 📢📈. Data suggests that stroke rates in the female population are expected to rise from 4.1 per cent in 2020 to 6.7 per cent by 2050 as cardiovascular disease becomes an even more critical public health priority 🏥🧬.
This shift is primarily driven by an ageing demographic alongside rising clinical incidences of obesity and diabetes which are now appearing in increasingly younger age cohorts ⚖️🍎. Professor Karen E. Joynt Maddox notes that if current trends persist more than one in three women will succumb to cardiovascular conditions 💸📉.
While traditional risk factors like smoking are declining the projected surge in hypertension to 59.1 per cent represents a significant call to action for preventative healthcare strategies 🩺🚨. Experts emphasise that this trajectory sets up entire generations of girls to develop heart failure or atrial fibrillation at a much younger age than previously observed in historical records 🧩👩⚕️.
Addressing these adverse trends requires urgent intervention focused on metabolic health and sleep quality to mitigate the long term impact of these neurological and cardiovascular challenges 🧠💪.
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Does a stroke bring on diabetes?
I don't think menopause helps much more either!
It is your mind-set that will allow you to cope with every difficulty that crosses your self-rehabilitation path.
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A fun but quite simplistic poster for you! So, is neuroplasticity just heightened/stoked through just 'doing more reps? Not really. Even now, only a fair amount idea is known about the optimal timing of the different processes and therapeutic interventions and for their interactions in detail.
The average stroke survivor probably only gets (or does) one twentieth of the input they need to put in to increase chances of recovery. So maybe doing LOADS more reps PLUS being cognisant of the point that the goal (finding optimal rehabilitation paradigms) will require an optimal organisation of the internal processes of neural plasticity PLUS the therapeutic interventions in accordance with plastic time windows (which can be highly manipulated anyway in many cases!
All rather tricky! But do take heart: brain plasticity can lead to an extreme degree of spontaneous recovery and rehabilitative training, especially ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery style (!) may modify and boost the neuronal plasticity processes.
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Well-known UK stroke survivor, Dr Tom Balchin OBE, founder of ARNI Stroke Rehab Charity shows us the way: a picture speaks 1000 words...
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Task-related practice is the ‘number one’ way to retrain the brain. It means simply to train the action to be performed in a natural environment. For example, if you wanted to lift a mug and drink from it, you should take a mug and practice lifting and drinking from it, over and over again … and attempt to improve progressively and consistently.
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Stroke survivor and Omagh native Paul Allen is set to launch his poignant debut memoir, 'The Final Peace: -A Stroke Survivor’s Journey, at the Tara Centre on Friday 13th March 2026. 📢✨
Currently residing in Lisburn for over 45 years, Paul meticulously crafted this 326-page narrative over thirteen years to document his resilience following an atypical stroke that initially went undiagnosed for four months. 🖋️🧠 The work provides an academic-level examination of neurological trauma, covering his pre-existing keratoconus and the profound psychological shift required to adjust from the 'old Paul' to a new version of himself. 🌊🧭
Supported by a foreword from Neurology Consultant Dr Enda Kerr, the text offers an unromanticised analysis of the long-term recovery process, including a period of prescription drug addiction and his subsequent triumph navigating the European inland waterways. ⚓🗺️
This inspirational event, scheduled from 2 pm to 4 pm in the Great Hall, aims to foster community understanding and provide practical advice for those grappling with hidden disabilities and forced retirement. 🤝🏥 Attendees will benefit from a book reading and a Q&A session focused on the transformative power of pursuing dreams as a core component of a personal rehabilitation strategy. 🗣️💪
By sharing his internal journey of discovery, Paul demonstrates that while medical intervention is vital, the ultimate task of rebuilding the mind often rests with the survivor's own agency and perseverance -nice one Paul 🧩📖
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Good advice Pam 😉 And Ciaran, have you come across the new (2024) Lucas Brand Moyamoya Foundation ? They're really trying hard to make a difference - maybe contact them to see if you could get involved/use your know-how (if appropriate?!) lucasbrandmmfoundation.co.uk/ Tom
Thanks for sharing this! I'm in a nearby city and didn't know about it, or Paul's story. Relate strongly to the survivor's agency: the most powerful tool I feel I have, which I've had to develop, is self-advocacy. Because my brain disease is rare (moyamoya disease), I've found that support and understanding is limited, so I've navigated treating myself like my own support worker. Exhausting, but feels more effective than leaving it for health workers to understand invisible deficits from a rare disease that are hard, almost impossible, to explain.
THE LATEST STROKE RECOVERY NEWS INCL. Wearable Robotics for Stroke Survivors and the Mechanics of Hip Assistance -
Exercise: Book Stacking Challenge
Here is a great challenge exercise for you to do, and using your creativity you can think of thousands of similar variations that simply utilise things that may be lying around your house. You are simply going to transfer a stack of book from one place to another using your affected hand, and only bringing the good hand ‘into the mix’ when you are certain that you are going to fail without a brief ‘assist’.
See The Successful Stroke Survivor book for full details on how best to do this exercise
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This is great if you have 2 ‘working’ hands or at least have finger extension
I agree with Jacqueline. I read all these exercises with great interest but what about people who can’t even hold anything let alone move it? We get so disappointed.
As stroke survivors, we have to keep learning, keep exploring and keep innovating over the long term. A start can be made by trying to find 'what's out there' (knowledge is power) and starting to retrain, with short and longer term goals. A physio or ARNI trainer can really help here.
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I regularly go to the gym ,just wish I could use my left arm there . I ve got no movement I. Arm n fingers
If you are a charity why is it not nhs pshyios as i carnt work i carnt afford to pay for privite treatment for this nhs isnt offerin me anything im 14yrs post no movement left arm affected dpasisty in arm from shoulder down to hand cannot dress myself and recently broke my left hop so im back to walking with stick ive gone backwards instead of forwards in walking and my shoulder movment is none ive got a roter cuff tear on left shoulder dont no y there isnt more arni centres about im in sandwell none near me
I do excersise daily streching as much as i can by myself but it doing nothing i av botox injections every 3mths in forearm not working im really stuck on what to try next ive been on a long journey of 14yrs and no change
Innovative hip exoskeleton for stroke survivors significantly reduces walking effort 🧠. This five-pound, battery-powered robotic device straps to the thighs to provide a custom-tuned motor boost precisely when the hip needs to lift or push off ⚡.
Unlike previous ankle-based prototypes that failed to reduce energy expenditure, this hip-centric approach compensates for reduced propulsion by assisting the body's centre of mass ⚖️. Lead author Kai Pruyn and associate professor Tommaso Lenzi have demonstrated that this technology offloads 31% cent of the work from the joints, resulting in an 18% decrease in metabolic cost 📉.
For a survivor with hemiparesis, this energy saving is equivalent to a healthy walker removing a thirty-pound backpack, making a life-changing difference to daily mobility 🎒.
Study participants like Lidia have reported that the device effectively 'does some of the movement' for them, even suggesting carry-over benefits when the exoskeleton is removed 🏃♀️. ARNI Stroke Rehab UK notes that such wearable robotics provide a vital foundation for the intensive, neuroplasticity-driven gait training required to regain true independence in the community 🌍.
While the University of Utah’s hip exoskeleton has shown 'life-changing 'results in clinical trials, it's not yet available for stroke survivors in the UK to buy as it remains in R&D phase. The research team is currently partnering with industry leaders to transition the prototype into a commercial product, but they must first complete further safety testing for home use and secure necessary medical regulatory approvals... so this post is really to show that devices like this exist now and are 'in the pipeline' for us....
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This hip-exo is especially designed to tackle foot-drop, so while previous attempts at stroke-specific robotics focused heavily on correcting foot drop via ankle-based systems, these often failed to reduce the physiological effort of walking because patients frequently compensate for distal weakness by over-recruiting proximal hip musculature. By targeting the hip joints directly, this device places the mechanical workload closer to the user’s centre of mass, allowing for lower torque requirements and a significantly lighter battery-powered motors system compared to cumbersome ankle-driven alternatives - see arni.uk.com/the-failure-of-foot-drop-ankle-robotics-and-the-hip-based-solution/
Is this similar to the exo shells that are £800 upwards?
