Stroke Recovery Essentials (The Successful Stroke Survivor Book 1)

This book is Volume 1 in the series of 5 taken from best-selling book and manual The Successful Stroke Survivor by Tom Balchin. The 5 easy-to-read books are all that those who have suffered a stroke and have reached the end of formal therapy need to recover AT HOME after therapy finishes. This book covers Chapters 1-6, and are probably the most important chapters in the book. After an introduction from the Author and a description of his Charity, which over 12 years has helped thousands to gain action control over limbs again, the parameters of stroke are defined. Questions you may have relating to the effects of stroke, such what are…paralysis, tone, aphasia, dysarthria, dysphagia, visual neglect, hemionopia, lability etc., are discussed along how improvement in your rehabilitation can be seen. Possible present interventions that you might involve yourself in are presented, from BOTOX to CIMT to Functional Electrical Stimulation. Then your stroke is explored, with the global situation noted and crucial advice given about how to prepare to obtain a much better return of function than you may have right now. Importantly, this book prepares you for the move from inability to ability, shows you how to set achievable goals and also that cut-off points for rehabilitation are not just worth entertaining.The author knows that a big question for you is ‘will i get results?’He acknowledges that stroke survivors state ‘my therapy finished too quickly’, I don’t know how to start retraining’ and ‘I can’t find an effective stroke group to help me retrain’. Each question is answered for you, at last! Chapter 6 is titled ‘Three big solutions for stroke survivors’. Read this book and find out what they are… and how to easily start your very own upwards curve to mobility and action control. Then the reader is shown the Programme to help him/herself start to self-rehabilitate after stroke in a clear and entertaining way for the stroke survivor, carers and loved ones. The evidence-based self-training that makes up the Approach that can be followed by copying the patterns of movement shown in the illustrations in Volumes 4 and 5 (the Lower and Upper Limb books). This book prepares you to fully look at the psychological aspects of getting better after stroke in Book 2.

CLINICIANS AND THERAPISTS IN STROKE RECOMMEND IT, AND STROKE SURVIVORS LOVE IT. Would you like to reduce and finally negate the use of your wheelchair or stick? YES! Would you like to be able to get up from the floor without any support of any kind? YES! Would you like to tackle spasticity in your hand? YES! Would you like to become stronger and less dependent? YES! Get each Volume.