Aims to promote the prevention of, and alleviate the suffering resulting from Chest, Heart & Stroke illnesses in Northern Ireland.
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Petr Piokomy is a qualified specialist personal trainer in stroke and neurological rehabilitation, and has been working in this field for the past 16 years. For the last 7 of those, he's been an associate of the ARNI Institute.
To keep this service running, ARNI relies heavily on donations and a small portion of commission from training sessions. Compared to private neuro rehab centres, ARNI offers a highly affordable and effective alternative - but they need support to keep going.
Here's how Petr is helping:
On Friday, September 25, 2026, ARNI instructor Petr will be taking on 13 Valleys challenge in Lake District in effort to raise awareness and funds for ARNI. This is around 114 miles throughout the national park with over 7,000 metres of elevation gain. This will be the longest and most challenging run he has run and is classed as ''brutal'' difficulty.
This is no small challenge - but it’s nothing compared to what many stroke survivors face every day.
If you can spare anything at all, we'd be be truly grateful for your support. Every donation helps ARNI deliver life-changing rehabilitation to someone who needs it.
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Petr's fundraiser for ARNI (ACTION FOR REHABILITATION AFTER NEUROLOGICAL INJURY)
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Help Petr Pokorny raise money to support ARNI (ACTION FOR REHABILITATION AFTER NEUROLOGICAL INJURY)
Struggling in this heat? If you've had a stroke, you may have noticed something odd; your more-affected side can actually feel a bit easier to move… while the rest of you feels wiped out. 🧠🌡️
We're into what looks like the UK's hottest summer on record (37-38°C this week, amber alerts across most of England), so it what does the heat do to you? Well, the good part first. As many of you will have felt, warmth does tend to ease spasticity. Cold of course does the total opposite; it ramps up activity in the muscle spindles (the sensors that set off the stretch reflex) and muscles in positions of spasticity tend to pull tighter, while heat settles that down. So a tight arm or leg often moves more freely in weather like this. If your affected side feels more workable right now, you're not imagining it!
But, annoyingly, after a stroke your body often doesn't regulate its own temperature as well, so you overheat faster and get fatigue very easily. And some common meds (BP tabs, diuretics, some antidepressants etc) change how you cope with heat and fluid; and dehydration thickens the blood, which is itself a stroke risk...
So you get looser muscles, but no stamina, shaky balance and poor concentration to go with them… which makes rehab training in the heat not at all easy ;).
The hot countries sorted this out long ago; across Spain, Italy, Greece and the Middle East, they do more at the cool ends of the day, and the hottest hours are for shade and rest. Not a bad model for us this week. .
So, Dr Tom's prescription is: train early or late, drink before you're thirsty and keep training short and sweet - in other words, no need to heroic training - maybe keep low-intensity cardio on an exercise bike#ARNIstrokerehab?#StrokeRecoveryu#spasticityk#heatwavet#strokesurvivorpasticity #Heatwave #StrokeSurvivor
What a timely post. Tick ✔️ to all those symptoms. I was beginning to worry that I had become looser but excessively tired, little strength and wobbly - worried I was regressing. The post was a comfort for me, thank you.
Evangelynne Heavenleigh
Place your fingers inside a rubber band and separate your fingers. The resistance of the rubber band will help strengthen your finger muscles. To increase resistance, add more rubber bands.
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ARNI Instructors are all experts in physical movement, most are registered with the Register of Exercise Professionals, and are also either strength athletes or martial artists as well. These people been through the comprehensive ARNI Institute Functional Rehabilitation & Exercise Training after Stroke Qualification and have had to learn how to take special care of stroke survivors. These are the people to train you. These are the people who will show you how to encourage real plastic change, yet understand that it is vital that you also develop some real-life coping strategies… fast. Don’t bother going anywhere else. I firmly believe the concept of ARNI is unique, and its many successes bear out the necessity for its existence.
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Tel: 0203 053 0111
Email: support@arni.uk.com
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So which is best: weight training or bodyweight training?
The truth is that bodyweight exercises and weight training can actually be combined into the same workout very effectively; it does not have to be an ‘either/or’ situation. BOTH training styles are useful, BOTH can make you very strong, and (in Tom's opinion) BOTH can be a part of your training programme as you become more advanced. A combination of weights and bodyweight training leads to the best overall development and they can complement each other extremely well.
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Can you recover from stroke if you can’t find anyone to help you? ABSOLUTELY! You can still self-rehab very successfully indeed, but to start, you’ll appreciate that knowledge is power. Which is why therapists and specialists instructors are well worth ‘using’, as they can provide you with the grounding that you probably need to understand how to reach ‘stages’, get to stages, make your own stages etc. And you need to do your knowledge accumulation (if you can.. ).
Call us on 0203 053 0111 or email support@arni.uk.com to find out if there's an instructor near you.
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Deep down, you have to believe that change is possible. Hope is a powerful drug that makes therapy so much more effective. Some people hear from their doctors that they won’t get any better after 6 weeks, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year… These timelines are untrue and can destroy hope. Hope alone won’t make you better, but without hope, progress is rare.
Always remember there are online videos and books on our website that will help give you hope in your recovery by providing you with exercises to help you.
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As I said elsewhere be your biggest cheerleader and tell the critic to GTF!!!
Every day there are people achieving a higher recovery than the professionals predicted. Your mindset can make the difference. Remember that!!
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When they don't follow you up how can they ever know.....you're discharged and that's it. This is why stroke care is so outdated in the UK and probably elsewhere - a lot of other conditions get 6 month or annual follow ups, but not stroke (in the main - there are some exceptions). But stop giving out information that leaves you thinking you have a limited window to regain
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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there is no real "end" to recovery. As long as you put in the work, you can pick things back up at any point. Even if it's been decades.
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Call us on 0203 053 0111 or email support@arni.uk.com to find out if there's an ARNI instructor near you.
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