Table of Contents
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Preface |
vii |
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Introduction |
xi |
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Acknowledgments |
xv |
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Stroke Recovery Essentials |
1 |
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Plan Your Work and
Work Your Plan |
2 |
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Say No to Plateau |
4 |
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Use Your Fantastic
Plastic Brain |
6 |
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A Doctor Made for
Stroke Survivors |
10 |
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Using the Wisdom of
Athletes |
11 |
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The Ultimate
Stroke-Recovery Drug |
13 |
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Measuring Progress |
16 |
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Recovery Hints and Tricks |
21 |
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Challenge Equals
Recovery |
22 |
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Use What You Have |
23 |
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Train Well on a
Treadmill |
25 |
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Mirrors Reflect
Recovery |
28 |
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Stick to the Task |
30 |
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Let Recovery Flow |
32 |
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The Recovery Calendar |
35 |
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Roadmap to Recovery |
38 |
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Recovery was So Fast
Right After the Stroke—Why did it Slow Down? |
41 |
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Tips for the
Caregiver |
43 |
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Stay Off the Killing
Floor |
48 |
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Reduce the Risk of
Another Stroke |
51 |
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Protect Your Bones |
52 |
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Stretch Out |
54 |
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Shoulder Care 101 |
59 |
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Five Tests You
should Do |
62 |
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Cool Treatment Options |
67 |
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Constraint-Induced
Therapy for the Arm and Hand |
68 |
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Get Your Hand Back |
74 |
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Imagine It! |
78 |
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Stimulate Your Stride |
80 |
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Mirror Therapy |
82 |
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Speak Musically |
84 |
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Constraint-Induced
Therapy for Speech |
85 |
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You are Game—Virtual
Reality |
87 |
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Rhythm Rehab for the
Arms and Hands |
89 |
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Rhythm Rehab for the
Leg |
91 |
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The Good Trains the
Bad—Bilateral Training |
93 |
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Shocking Subluxation |
96 |
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Elements of Exercise Essential to
Recovery |
99 |
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Get a Home Exercise
Program |
100 |
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Space to Recover—The
Home Gym |
103 |
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Space to Focus—The
Community Gym |
104 |
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Weight Up! |
107 |
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Bank Energy and
Watch Your Investment Grow |
110 |
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Recovery Strategies |
113 |
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Therapy Soup-Mix and
Match |
114 |
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Lifestyle as Therapy |
117 |
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Your Work Schedule |
119 |
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Living Recovery |
120 |
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Keep the Core Values
Close |
122 |
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Hard but Safe |
123 |
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Eat to Recover |
125 |
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Make Home Movies |
129 |
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Don’t Neglect the
Good Side |
131 |
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Guide Your Doctor |
133 |
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Spasticity Control and
Elimination |
137 |
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Spasticity—The Beast Unmasked |
138 |
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Neuroplastic Beats Spastic |
140 |
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Spasticity—Jekyll and Hyde? |
143 |
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Give Spasticity the One-Two Punch |
145 |
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Motivation: The Recovery Fuel |
151 |
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Meeting the
Challenge of Recovery |
152 |
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Be a Caveman |
154 |
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When Help Hurts |
157 |
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Reconsider
Medications |
161 |
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Fight Fatigue |
162 |
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Walking Your Way to
Better Walking |
165 |
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Recovery Machines |
169 |
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Those Amazing
Machines |
170 |
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Resources |
183 |
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Glossary |
187 |
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Index |
205 |
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About the Author |
216 |
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