Stronger after stroke Your roadmap to recovery

Peter G. Levine

Book - 2018

Puts the power of recovery in the reader's hands by providing simple-to-follow instructions for reaching the highest possible level of recovery. The book's neuroplastic recovery model stresses repetition of task-specific practice, proper scheduling of practice, setting goals, and measuring progress to achieve optimal results. Researcher Peter G. Levine breaks down the science and gives survivors evidence-based tools to retrain the brain and take charge of recovery. Introduces readers to leading-edge stroke recovery information while simplifying the process to attain specific benchmarks. Also included is a sample recovery schedule, a helpful glossary of frequently used stroke recovery terms, and a list of resources for readers to r...esearch emerging stroke recovery options. Also features: Complete update of all chapters to reflect new knowledge about maximizing recovery; the latest research insights applied to individual recovery programs; steps to cope with challenges at each stage of recovery and achieve success; DIY strategies to save time and money; new chapters on using electrical stimulation, reducing post-stroke pain, and understanding spasticity"--Back cover.

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Published
New York, NY : Demos Health, an imprint of Springer Publishing Company [2018]
Language
English
Main Author
Peter G. Levine (author)
Edition
Third edition
Item Description
"Fully revised and updated"--Cover.
Physical Description
xxiii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9780826124135
  • Stroke recovery essentials
  • Plan you work and work your plan
  • Say no to plateau
  • Use your fantastic plastic brain
  • A doctor made for stroke survivors
  • Neuroscience: your new best friend
  • Using the wisdom of athletes
  • The ultimate stroke recovery drug
  • Measuring progress
  • Recovery hints and tricks
  • Challenge equals recovery
  • Use what you have
  • Train well on a treadmill
  • Mirrors reflect recovery
  • The mind, the brain, and sticking to the task
  • Let recovery flow
  • The recovery calendar
  • Roadmap to recovery
  • Tips for the caregiver
  • Safeguarding the recovery investment
  • Reduce pain to increase recovery
  • Stay off the killing floor
  • Reduce the risk of another stroke
  • Protect your bones
  • Don't shorten
  • Shoulder care
  • Five test you should do
  • Cool treatment options
  • Constraint-induced therapy for the arm and hand
  • Get your hand back
  • Imagine it!
  • Electrical stimulation for frugal dummies
  • Stimulate your stride
  • Mirror therapy (MT)
  • Recovery of feeling
  • Speak musically
  • Constraint-induced therapy of speech
  • You are game virtual reality
  • The good trains the bad bilateral training
  • Rhythm rehab for the arms and hands
  • Walking in rhythm
  • Shocking subluxation
  • The neuroplastic model for "pusher" syndrome
  • Elements of exercise essential to recovery
  • Horizontal rehab: good sleep=good recovery
  • Get a home exercise program
  • Space to recover: the home gym
  • Space to focus: the community gym
  • Weight up!
  • Bank energy and watch your investment grow
  • Recovery strategies
  • The four phases of stroke recovery
  • The subacute phase: recovery's sweet spot
  • Expanding the therapeutic footprint
  • Therapy soup: mix and match
  • Lifestyle as therapy
  • Your work schedule
  • Living recovery
  • Keep the core values safe
  • Hard but safe
  • Eat to recover
  • Make home movies
  • Don't neglect the "good" side
  • Guide your doctor
  • Spasticity control and elimination
  • Spasticity: the beast unmasked
  • Neuroplastic beats spastic
  • Spasticity, tone and contracture: even clinicians get it wrong
  • Spasticity: Jekyll and Hyde?
  • Give spasticity the one-two punch
  • Motivation: recovery fuel
  • Meeting the challenge of recovery
  • Be a caveman
  • When help hurts
  • Reconsider medications
  • This just got real: psychological adjustment after stroke
  • Fight fatigue
  • Walking your way to better walking
  • The young adult stroke survivor (YASS): driven to recover
  • Recovery machines
  • Those amazing machines.