Stroke Recovery, the "How To"Stroke recovery methods are constantly evolving. From my Dads stroke in 1970 to mine in 2001 things have changes. We know more about stroke and recovery. However the real basics get ignored hoping that the new method of therapy will do the trick by itself. Or a new drug will solve the problem. Those basics of stroke recovery have to start where it happened, the brain. It makes sense the brain is not functioning properly so the brain has to fix the problem.
Doctors can work on fixing a hemorrhagic stroke but they don't cut out the damaged area because it won't fix it. They can also work on removing clots by an ischemic stroke that's robbing the brain of blood flow but they don't remove the dead cells because again it won't fix it. Stroke therapy is to regain the use of muscles to speak, talk, move arms and legs and that's not the half of it. It can work but how? The brain cells killed by the stroke don't come back no matter how much therapy there is. So how do people like myself get all they lost back through recovery? If you were thinking “Luck” you'd be wrong. Believe me I don't feel lucky. I do feel thankful my Dad had a stroke and I could learn from what he did wrong and what he did right so my recovery was very short. Don't get me wrong, I didn't what him to have a stroke! I had 23 years of learning from him and I put it to good uses. Use your brain, he eventually did. I used mine and recovered and was back at work in 6 months. You're in therapy or have been but you're not where you want to be and that's why you're reading this. Great so let's start with the basics. Therapy is to teach your brain, not you, to do something you can't. Repetition is the key. Repetition is the key. Repetition is the key. Get it? I did my therapies 3 times a day every day with or without the therapist. Professional golfers doesn't just think about the game they hit balls over and over and over again till they learn to hit them properly and then continue to hit them so they won't forget how to do it. Doing all those therapies placed me in charge of my recovery. Yes I'd use any training aid (therapist, doctor, etc) I could get my hands on, but I was in charge. What was happening in my brain? I was building new paths to brain cells that could be trained to do the actions I required. It worked. I called it Rewiring.
Now these days they call it Rewiring. Funny thing. They had no name for it or even knew you could do it. So talk to someone who's done it or at least read how they did it. The most important thing is to do it. I Had a Stroke
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