Stronger After Stroke by Levine, Peter G. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Foreword Preface Introduction Acknowledgments Share Stronger After Stroke: Your Roadmap to Recovery, Third Edition 1. Stroke Recovery Essentials

Plan Your 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

2. 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

3. 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 101 Five Tests You Should Do

4. 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 for 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

5. 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

6. Recovery Strategies

The Four Phases of Stroke Recovery—And What to Do During Each 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 Close Hard but Safe Eat to Recover Make Home Movies Don’t Neglect the “Good” Side Guide Your Doctor

7. 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

8. 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

9. Recovery Machines

Those Amazing Machines

Resources Glossary Index About the Author