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2 hours ago

This is from a memory back in 2014. Just had to share again!!

Comment from Rona Morris to Tom via facebook. To me, this encapsulates the whole point of what we do and have done since 2000 for stroke survivors - and where it's all going ..

If you read this, would you comment quickly with your view? Very valued - many thanks, Tom 😉

Rona wrote: "I am looking forward to my Arni training then I can YET AGAIN prove physios wrong when I used the manual to learn how to get off the floor they said it was a nice to have , I think it's an essential , was easier last week when I fell to know I could get up myself especially as I learned to do it one handed and with broken wrist I had to, doctor at A&E was amazed I could do it at all.
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Every time you share, you could directly help someone – as knowledge is power.
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ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery

7 hours ago

Do you want to get ahead? Need some help? Call us on 0203 053 0111 or email support@arni.uk.com to find out if there's an ARNI Instructor near you who can help you.
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9 hours ago

The Successful Stroke Survivor book by Tom Balchin

Reviewed by Joe
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 June 2019
Verified Purchase
I've had the pleasure of learning from Tom Balchin, founder of the ARNI Institute and author of this book.

This is a concise guide to stroke survivors (Tom Balchin himself is one!) on not only how to self rehabilitate with assistance but also independently, with evidence based studies to further reinforce how important it is to perform the rehabilitation exercises regularly.

As well as this, all technical jargon has been simplified, and Tom makes a personal connection with the reader through his own experiences, showing that he is a true master of his craft.

I couldn't recommend this book enough to stroke survivors, their relatives, carers and specialists!

Have you got your copy?
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1 day ago

GREAT IDEA!! The app that can spot a signs of stroke before you even know you're having one! 📱🧠 The phone in your pocket already maps 30,000 infrared points across your face every time you unlock it... and researchers have worked out that the same tech can detect facial asymmetry and arm weakness that can signal a stroke and combine it with speech changes to make a recommendation.

FAST AI developed by neurologist Radoslav Raychev MD at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine and validated on patient data between 2021 and 2022 across four stroke centres, uses machine learning to detect facial asymmetry, arm weakness and speech changes, three cardinal signs of stroke - and then even ask the user to try to do a task or two to help confirm signs of a possible stroke.

In clinical testing across 400 patients at five hospitals it detected true stroke symptoms with a sensitivity of 0.99 – performing in line with a neurologist's clinical examination. Separately, biomedical engineers at RMIT University built a facial screening tool that analyses asymmetry in facial muscle movement and achieved 82% accuracy in identifying stroke symptoms from video alone.

The hardware to run all of this is already in hundreds of millions of pockets – camera, accelerometer, gyroscope, microphone, capable together of assessing the FAST signs in real time. Raychev's longer term vision extends beyond the app; 'when someone's on a video chat, or talking to a virtual assistant, or in an autonomous driving vehicle, we want passive surveillance to capture symptoms as the stroke happens.'

But... FAST AI remains in R&D and is NOT yet available to the public; no release date has been confirmed. ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery says: the technology to spot a stroke from a smartphone already exists and has been validated against neurologist-level accuracy. An Iphone that knows your face could one day notice when something is dangerously wrong with you. I guess, watch this space. 📱💙
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ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery

1 day ago

Have you tried horse riding post stroke? When stroke survivors ride, the movement of the horse helps the brain relearn the necessary muscle coordination required for walking, without putting additional strain on the survivor.
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Every time you share, you could directly help someone – as knowledge is power 😉
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1 day ago

Hi all, Dr Tom here! For the last year or so, I've been writing a new book with the aim of publication this year (on our 25th anniversary). I'm now in the finishing stages and I'd like to include YOU, loyal ARNI Stroke Rehab and Recovery readers - and put your name in the book!

You can get in it simply by submitting here at the end of this post or to me at tom@arni.uk.com your best TIP or TIPS (one or however many you like) that you've personally created OR heard about, implement and use to great success to help yourself self-manage and/or retrain. It could be ANYTHING, but it's got to be useful to help you either live life and/or recover. And let me know how you discovered it, and what problem it solves. Anything to do with any limitations from stroke, ok??

So, examples for inclusion will include my own things I've come up with/developed for recovery and then passed on to others, like these: have YOU got any clever tips like these? If so, write them here in response, and/or to me at tom@arni.uk.com please! Also please expand a bit on the circumstances on each so I can see the context, like my examples:

1. I took to wearing a watch on my left wrist, palm side down, so to find out the time, I have to turn (supinate) my wrist each time (which is of course a really big move for upper limb rehab). This REALLY WORKS to encourage constant rotational movement of the arm at the elbow (mind you, you have be curious about the time!)

2. Washing underneath my good arm was impossible in the bath until I discovered I could lather my good knee with soap and clean my underarm wonderfully with by rubbing it on my knee!

3. I had a very hard time putting my shoes and socks on, but discovered early on that if I sat on my bed and rolled onto my back with my knees bent, it was all much easier to do. I STILL use this technique 30 years later - used it this morning as I've smashed my good knee extremely badly (trying to play football with my young son!)

GO FOR IT! Is there anything you do or have developed? Or anything you think I really should include as a stroke survivor tip regardless of whether it comes from personal experience? Or anything that your stroke survivor loved one does that you'd like to share?

If I get enough, I'm thinking to create a Tips section at the end of each chapter by the way. And btw, your Tips can encompass anything you like - mainly tips for the community stroke survivors rather than in hospital, but if you have anything good, SEND IT ANYWAY ok?! Over to you! Dr Tom 😉

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1 day ago

The rowing stroke when using an indoor rower is about 65-75% leg work and 25-35% upper body work. Each rowing stroke involves full compression and extension of the legs, working the muscles of the calves, thighs, hamstrings, buttocks and hips, shoulders, back, arms and hands as well as your ‘core’ abdominal muscles. Because it engages so many muscle groups simultaneously, rowing gets the heart-rate up nicely, pumping oxygen-rich blood around your system in readiness for exertion.
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If you like this post then please share it with others. Each time that you share a post, you can directly help other people – as who knows which people in the world might find us and gain, either directly from the charity or simply by being able to copy an ‘innovative and useful’ move/trick of the trade that might help them manage after stroke.

Every time you share, you could directly help someone – as knowledge is power 😉
#strokerehabilitation #strokerecovery #neurorehabilitation #strokerehab #neurorehab #exerciseafterstroke #neuroplasticity #strokerecoveryexercises #strokeexercise #strokesurvivorscan
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ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery

2 days ago

News-flash: Hub conducting ground-breaking research into strokes will open at the Royal Preston Hospital 🧠💙 Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has secured £1.48 million from the National Institute for Health and Care Research to develop a Centre for Stroke, Neuroscience and Ageing Research (CSNAR) at the Royal Preston Hospital, due to open next year.

The funding converts unused space beneath the Rosemere Cancer Centre into a dedicated clinical and academic research hub, bringing together clinicians from Lancashire Teaching Hospitals with academics from the University of Lancashire and Lancaster University.

Lancashire is known for having one of the highest stroke incidence levels (and poorest outcomes) in the country, sitting alongside significant deprivation and high levels of cardiovascular disease. And stroke survivors there have historically had fewer opportunities to participate in research trials than those in better-resourced regions.

We understand that CSNAR has set out to change that; improving early diagnosis, strengthening rehabilitation pathways, and growing the Trust's commercial research portfolio to more than 30 open trials... drawing life-science and biotech partners to a region that has long deserved a serious academic stroke research presence.

For stroke survivors in Lancashire and South Cumbria, this means more local access to the kind of high-quality research participation that shapes future treatment – and that possibly shapes our own care.... 🧠💙
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ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery

4 days ago

The series of three trunk twists – midline, lowline, and highline - is not designed to encourage compensatory reaching movements from the trunk, shoulder or elbow. Rather, it is an action control activity designed to remind you where you are in space.

The exercise has the potential to activate and strengthen your ‘stabiliser muscles’. Everyday activities, like picking up a bag of shopping or walking up steps, require the body to balance and steady itself, which in turn requires strong stabilisation abilities.

Find out more in The Successful Stroke Survivor book by Tom Balchin.
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ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery

4 days ago

Hi all, Dr Tom here! For the last year or so, I've been writing a new book with the aim of publication this year (on our 25th anniversary). I'm now in the finishing stages and I'd like to include YOU, loyal ARNI Stroke Rehab and Recovery readers - and put your name in the book!

You can get in it simply by submitting here at the end of this post or to me at tom@arni.uk.com your best TIP or TIPS (one or however many you like) that you've personally created OR heard about, implement and use to great success to help yourself self-manage and/or retrain. It could be ANYTHING, but it's got to be useful to help you either live life and/or recover. And let me know how you discovered it, and what problem it solves. Anything to do with any limitations from stroke, ok??

So, examples for inclusion will include my own things I've come up with/developed for recovery and then passed on to others, like these: have YOU got any clever tips like these? If so, write them here in response, and/or to me at tom@arni.uk.com please! Also please expand a bit on the circumstances on each so I can see the context, like my examples:

1. I took to wearing a watch on my left wrist, palm side down, so to find out the time, I have to turn (supinate) my wrist each time (which is of course a really big move for upper limb rehab). This REALLY WORKS to encourage constant rotational movement of the arm at the elbow (mind you, you have be curious about the time!)

2. Washing underneath my good arm was impossible in the bath until I discovered I could lather my good knee with soap and clean my underarm wonderfully with by rubbing it on my knee!

3. I had a very hard time putting my shoes and socks on, but discovered early on that if I sat on my bed and rolled onto my back with my knees bent, it was all much easier to do. I STILL use this technique 30 years later - used it this morning as I've smashed my good knee extremely badly (trying to play football with my young son!)

GO FOR IT! Is there anything you do or have developed? Or anything you think I really should include as a stroke survivor tip regardless of whether it comes from personal experience? Or anything that your stroke survivor loved one does that you'd like to share?

If I get enough, I'm thinking to create a Tips section at the end of each chapter by the way. And btw, your Tips can encompass anything you like - mainly tips for the community stroke survivors rather than in hospital, but if you have anything good, SEND IT ANYWAY ok?! Over to you! Dr Tom 😉

(Please send me your tips by Monday 15 June 2026 at the latest).
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