Stroke Stiff

Your leg or your arm may feel stroke stiff after your stroke. This is not a problem with your arm or leg but with you brain.

It took me a number of years to find this out.

It’s not that signals from your brain aren’t reaching your limb the problem is the message your arm or leg is sending back to your brain. Your brain is having a seizure, basically sending the wrong signal back to your limb making it stiffen up.

The number one thing I did is to exercise up to three times a day. If you have a physiotherapist ask what exercises would be best. If you don’t have one ask someone you know who exercises regularly like someone who takes karate classes for example.

They do lots of stretching at the start of each class.

The idea is to stretch each join in your leg or arm making it bend in all directions that it should bend. I started with my toes which were the first to get feelings back. Every chance I got I’d bend my toes up and down this encouraged my ankle and moving up to my knee.

Seizures make your leg or arm stiff and the exercise looses them up.

Often there’s pain associated with the condition. This is also the brain seizure and not the arm or leg in real pain. It’s all just a mixed up signal.

After years of pain down the left side of my body which is my stroke side my neurologist told my about the brain seizures. My family doctor and many others never said a thing about this condition when I asked. They just didn’t know.

My neurologist told me the're several drugs being used with this condition. He gave me Lyrica and within forty eight hours the pain was gone. It seemed like a miracle to me.

There will be pain with the stretching and that’s natural. The seizure pain is different; it’s there all the time and feels like a pain deep inside the muscle. This is the pain that the drugs might take away.

In the end you need to exercise every day more than once and if you have the other type of pain see a doctor who knows about seizure pain.

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