I am curious about a thought exercise… if anyone had a stroke and they wanted to augment their recovery, what would your personal protocol be? Let’s assume it was blockage and not a brain bleed.
I’m not sure on the details, but my friends’ mother had a stroke at age 82 and was largely paralyzed on one side of her body. This was in Canada, and they put her into an intensive in-patient physical therapy routine for 3 or 4 months, then a follow-on 6 month program of regular out-patient physical therapy, and she got about 95% back to full functioning. It was pretty amazing what can be accomplished if you move quickly and have an intensive program. I’m not sure how common these types of programs are in the US.
Here is the program that I believe she went through:
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