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When attention is divided between physical therapy and the radio playing in the background, you’re not reaping the full benefits of your efforts.
Make sure that you’re getting the most benefit from your exercises by creating a quiet, distraction-free environment. Turn off the television and tell family members not to disturb you until you’re done.
Your brain is hard at work rewiring itself. Don’t let distraction get in the way!
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And here's the proof: the new UK SSNAP shows Fewer than 1 in 15 stroke survivors get the rehab they’re meant to! These stats keep getting worse and worse even as more and more public money goes into the NHS....
The new national audit (SSNAP, run out of King’s College London) found only 6.4% of patients got the recommended three hours of therapy a day, five days a week, in early 2026. Which is down from 7.5% from the end of 2024... astonishing isn't it?
And average therapy dropped from 46 minutes a day to 40. And depending which hospital you're in, daily therapy ranges from just 15 minutes to 57 - nearly a fourfold difference - it's a horrible mess -and the government should most definitely prioritiise this rather than handing our money out on improving roads in Romania etc.
Once survivors get home, only 68% get ANY continuing rehab support at all. Meaning 32% get absolutely NOTHING.
And even the therapy that does get delivered is usually the wrong kind. We need intensive, repetitive, task-specific practice; YOU making the movement, over and over, with real intent - but in typical NHS physio and OT sessions, patients manage a median of just 32 arm reps btw - whereas the dose actually shown to drive neuroplasticity is several HUNDRED a day. We're all aware that being moved isn’t the same as moving.
So the audit really shows two problems: way too little therapy (a resourcing issue for the NHS), and that a large part of what IS given being far too passive and low-rep to drive any real recovery.
This is where ARNI comes in. With over 100 qualified instructors across the UK, ARNI teaches survivors how to train actively at home, at the intensity and reps the evidence actually calls for, long after NHS therapy has tailed off. Being coached, pushed, guided and guarded to do the repetitive, task-specific work yourself (rather than passive ‘treatment’ being administered onto you) - and bringing in family and friends to assist and encourage where professionals can’t always be present.
Were YOU offered enough rehab after your stroke? Let me know in the comments below.
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Reasonable treatment in Bristol, 3 weeks in rehab unit, lucky to get an hour a day!
Then home and really good stroke team, had 3 visits a day at first, with an emphasis on rehab, this tapered off but lasted for 6 months. Then private physio and private Pilates, continuing with all the stuff I had been taught in the first 3 months. Still working on it with physio 2 years later. Expensive but worth every penny.
My son was in hospital for 4 month then spent 6 month as inpatient at rehab ,physio was one hour three times a week .
Had very little in hospital due to Covid. Was in hospital for 12 weeks, then 6 weeks residential then NOTHING, had to track down Headway - the brain injury association myself and now attend my local branch, Headway Luton once a week for specialised targeted exercises,which obviously costs but recommend then to anyone
I am getting no help. I am walking now that only because I have learned myself
ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery What training opportunities do you offer NHS employed therapists to improve and promote better rehab?
My Arni physio did a great job for me after the NHS gave me around 6 weeks of home visits.
But ultimately who funds it? Instead of asking for more money perhaps we need to look at the quality and qualifications of those being paid to deliver the rehab.... They get paid whether they do a great job or a bad job and as a stroke survivor I had ZERO idea what I needed to be working on.... The consequences of which are with me today but nobody is 'responsible'.... Secondly if you rehab people properly they're likely to make better gains and perhaps remain productive in the labour market, family life thus cutting government expenditure....if £££ is what those in power understand then it makes sense to provide better input earlier on and ongoing
lucky if i got 20 mins twice a week!!! have had to spend savings on a private physio
Six hours of physiotherapy over six weeks is simply not enough! I'm now having private physiotherapy, which I'm fortunate enough to be able to afford, but this is two years later than it should have been.
Thankfully, I'm able to walk withd aids , but after recently rolling my ankle and sustaining a significant sprain, my doctor has now referred me to orthotics for an AFO (ankle-foot orthosis) – something that really should have been considered and provided months ago.
It's incredibly frustrating that so much time has been lost and that patients are left having to push for basic support and rehabilitation.
Aftercare is absolutely atrocious. It shouldn't be a case of having to fight for the treatment and equipment needed to support recovery and prevent further injury.
No only 6 wks off community physio once a week for 30 minutes was crap i now having to 2 pay privately for physio twice a week for one hour each time its expensive not everyone can afford this its terrible able how stroke patients r treated after discharge from hospital there's no support at all government definitely needs to address this
Absolutely Nothing here on the Fylde coast, once you are discharged from hospital then you are on your own!
My dad was in hospital 16 weeks, 14 of them in a rehab unit he was lucky if he got one physio session a week. He's now 18 months post hemorragic stroke bedbound with no improvement. Discharged by everyone and just left alone with me to care for him
My hubby had six months NHS therapy both occupational / speech therapy and physical therapy but then they walked away saying they’d done as much as they could
Which made us feel that what we had was what he had to live with I as his wife still try to help him but on top of general caring , household duties etc it’s so hard and I feel he’s been let down by the system 😰
I was in hospital for 6 weeks. Physios did their best but it took me about 4 weeks to get out of bed. At home I got 12 weeks once a week for 30 minutes. Now I’ve been paying for weekly neurological training. I felt somewhat abandoned by the ots after the 12 weeks, but there’s only so much they can do.
NHS spent £60,000 on my brother in rehab for 3 months. Did not meet one goal, just money making scheme. The hospital where he was, supposedly a stroke excellent for Kent. One day I happened to be around and they invited me to see him do physio, lasted 4 minutes. This was someone that spent 3 months in ICU, hospital for 6 months aged 55. But the community physio has been brilliant. Shame as if we had known how to fight but these are the supposed experts.
We didn’t know what to expect after my husband’s major Stroke. We were told he needed to rest and sleep at first so he did just that in hospital. They then moved him to a rehab unit (NHS) so a total of 3 months in hospital after which he discharged himself as he was getting hardly any physio and sitting in a wheelchair often for 9 hours. There was a fully equipped gym but it was locked so he never used it. Staff shortages meant 2 physios were doing the work of 5. He received physio sessions at home which lasted about half an hour but the staff were not qualified physios but assistants who just followed written directions. It is truly shocking how little support Stroke survivors get!
The problem is that ARNI cannot guarantee getting trainers either. We were told we would be getting one only to have our hopes dashed when the person who ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery trained decided he didn't want to continue. We've been let down all round sorry to say. 😥😥😥
Many people will want to do some form of cardiovascular exercise daily. Go for it. If this is not achievable, it’s advised that you complete 10-60 minutes, 3-6 days per week, depending on your status and the intensity of the exercise being completed. This may sound like a lot to do, but it does need to be contemplated. And it doesn’t have to be onerous at all.
Intensity of exercise is dependent on your heart rate or the amount of effort you feel you’re exerting. The more intense the activity, the higher your heart rate will be. And the less time you’ll probably need to train for. You’ll soon find that you can create a weekly plan which allows you to slot in some frequent but short sessions of cardiovascular exercise.
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Each brain hemisphere (parts of the cerebrum) has four sections, called lobes: frontal, parietal, temporal and occipital. Each lobe controls specific functions.
Frontal lobe. The largest lobe of the brain, located in the front of the head, the frontal lobe is involved in personality characteristics, decision-making and movement. Recognition of smell usually involves parts of the frontal lobe. The frontal lobe contains Broca’s area, which is associated with speech ability.
Parietal lobe. The middle part of the brain, the parietal lobe helps a person identify objects and understand spatial relationships (where one’s body is compared with objects around the person). The parietal lobe is also involved in interpreting pain and touch in the body. The parietal lobe houses Wernicke’s area, which helps the brain understand spoken language.
Occipital lobe. The occipital lobe is the back part of the brain that is involved with vision.
Temporal lobe. The sides of the brain, temporal lobes are involved in short-term memory, speech, musical rhythm and some degree of smell recognition.
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Approximately 40% of stroke survivors experience this difficulty: to comprehend or produce spoken or written language caused by a cerebrovascular accident. In half of these cases the language impairment still persists one year post-stroke. Aphasia has wide-ranging effects on the ability to function and quality of life of stroke survivors and easily leads to social isolation.
If you need help, ARNI SLT Telerehab can now help YOU, right now, wherever you are in the world!
The latest evidence shows clearly that you can conquer aphasia very successfully with the help of speech and language therapy.
And it also shows that SLT Telerehab is just as effective as in-person, face to face treatment.
We have a team of highly experienced low-cost specialist SLTs (all post-grads from Universities such as UCL, the University of Cape Town etc) who are available to help you right now, in your home, via Zoom. You get a one to one hourly service, based around your diary needs, from the comfort of your own home, with a highly experienced specialist speech and language therapist. Please enquire to arni.uk.com/get-remote-speech-language-help-now/ !
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While the plateau may be real, it does not mean that recovery has stopped. Recovery only stops when you stop.
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It's the weekend. Have a good one!
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Tom says 'Life will never be the same for anyone who has survived a stroke, but successful survivors are those who can accept the reality of their new situations with a positive attitude. As such they are able to try to live each day productively, with as much creativity and fulfilment as possible within the new boundaries imposed by stroke. If you’ve hired a therapist or trainer to get you started (advised), you must have maximal input towards your own rehabilitation and the way you want to go, and feel able to ask for it if you’re not getting it. Activity is the watchword!'
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This picture is from The Successful Stroke Survivor book. It explains who this book is for. Get your copy today and you can get going on the exercises you need.
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