Michelle, Cudos to you sticking to it. You've encouraged me and I've only now, 3 years post-strike starting to concentrate on my hand. The severe spasticity in my hand was my greatest deterrent to work it. It felt lika a total waste of time. I'm 70, and starting over on it. Keep up the good work!

@StrokeStrengthSupport

3 жыл бұрын

I'm so happy I could help in any way. Do you get botox or anything to help the spasticity, or has it lessened at all for you?

Great job sister. Im going through it hard as of now too.❤

Thanks

keep motivating people your doing great . anybody watching stroke recovery vids of real people don't for get to help and subscribe and hit like .

@StrokeStrengthSupport

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, very much!

what did you do to regain the ability to lift your arm over head?

Can I ask why it was so long after your stroke before you started trying to work on recovery please? Is that something to do with how the health system is in the US, and what I’ve heard about the limited amount of help you get when released from hospital there, like with insurance that runs out? Or because you didn’t want to, didn’t have any motivation or will, or ? Genuinely curious. I know we’re very lucky in Australia as I outpatient Physiotherapy covered by our public health system for the first coupla years at least, and they helped quite a bit with therapy.

@StrokeStrengthSupport

3 жыл бұрын

I first went and lived in a nursing home after 3 months in the hospital. They worked with me on speech and walking but my hand/arm was very neglected, in my opinion. I will say I was very depressed and would send PT away a lot however, my hand did not get any help there. One year after my stroke I was doing outpatient speech and had a few occupational therapy sessions as outpatient too. My hand wasn't showing any improvements, well not much anyway. I did not have medical insurance at the time, I was 25 and didn't think it was important. So, my insurance was the free government stuff for people who rely on assistance and they were not paying for me. I believe you get 10 sessions to show improvements and if you do the OT can request more and talk about your progress with insurance but if you don't thats it. She tried to help me zip a zipper, gave me a booklet for adaptive equipment to help with only one hand and that was it. I do take responsibility for not being super motivated to try at the time due to depression of my situation but I also did not receive support or encouragement from the OT I saw or the nursing home. I didn't understand stroke deficits or really know what a stroke was. This is a story I have wrote out to share as a video and still will but, yes, so that is why I didn't really start working on my hand until 9 years post. That is when I discovered stroke FB support groups and later started the stroke sweat squad. It was the early friends I made that taught me what they knew about recovery. I didn't even know regaining function was a thing, was at all possible with work

@Rainbowgrrl

3 жыл бұрын

@@StrokeStrengthSupport ohhh wow so basically you just thought that was it and you would just be however it was at that stage, for the rest of your life then, and accepted that for 9 years before you learnt more about it? When you say the early friend you made taught you about recovery-do you mean via the stroke support groups online,

@Pockets2001

3 жыл бұрын

@@Rainbowgrrl ll

@strokeandthegarden9496

Жыл бұрын

We have the worst health care here in the USA. They fuc me over big time. I woke up paralysis my left side leg and arm.. I was freaked out I jumped out my bed standing on my good leg.. let's just say I was really motivated.. I wieght bared on bad leg for two days and got a little movement back. I layed in bed moving my leg back and for up and down for ,4 days straight between naps... Still no arm movement..started some pt.. Day9 I was brought a walker and they had be hobble around for4 days.. keep in mind I never sat down... Well by day 16 I was able to hobble 250 ft... Still no arm movement... Because I was able to make it 250 feet I didn't qualify for inpatient rehabilitation.. I was discharged that day.. so out patient therapy it was.. . Insurance only pay for 27 days pt and ot and speech together.. so here I I'm 90 days post stroke. Just got my hand to open on my own.. walking limped.. doing my own rehab.. yes USA health care sucks.. it supports about a third of our economy.. if we had free healthcare the USA would go broke.🤣🤣🤣🤣LOL

I find stretching the hand and arm quite difficult for myself.

@StrokeStrengthSupport

3 жыл бұрын

What is the hardest part of doing it yourself. I actually have my arm stretching exercises that I want to share and if you let me know the difficulties I can suggest so.ething to help if I know how to

@Rainbowgrrl

3 жыл бұрын

@@StrokeStrengthSupport that would be really great! It’s being able to a) know what to do exactly that will get an adequate stretch which I’m capable of, b) being able to do it like for instance I get the best stretch I think when my physio will manipulate my arm hand n wrist in certain ways and I can’t do that the same way she does with only my right arm and without knowing what’s ok to do.

@StrokeStrengthSupport

3 жыл бұрын

@@Rainbowgrrl ok, I might be able to help. I've got stretches for the whole arm so hopefully it will be helpful to you. The only caution I have to say, and will say in the video too is, if you are unable to feel the area being stretched, start slow. By that I mean a light pull or push and then after that initial you can go a little more, followed by a little more. Maybe that's 3 different days depending on how cautious you want to be. For me I do all three in the same session, just releasing and maybe a little shake in between

@Rainbowgrrl

3 жыл бұрын

@@StrokeStrengthSupport I feel like I’d probably do the same where I’d go one, break, go again break then last time too! But any ideas to give a go are much appreciated and worth a try I think. Thank you, very much look forward to this vid :)