There is now a substantial body of evidence to support the importance of cardiovascular exercise for mobility, health and well-being as part of rehabilitation for stroke survivors.
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.
Not sure what to do/how to do it? We have trainers throughout the country who can help you. Call us on 0203 053 0111 or email support@arni.uk.com to find out if there's one near you.
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A soft rehab glove that reads your hand's intention has just been created🧠🖐️ Researchers at the Technical University of Munich have built a soft fabric glove that reads the intention to grasp from your forearm muscles and then closes your hand around the object.
Published in Nature Machine Intelligence in June 2026 by John Nassour, Nicolas Berberich, Tobias Wächter and Gordon Cheng, the glove uses air cushions inflated through 13 small tubes to bend each finger and rotate the wrist... enough to hold a plate or grasp a fork. Sensors on the forearm pick up the electrical signals from your muscles, and machine learning reads them to predict the movement you intend, with 97% reliability.
It was developed with a patient who, despite having very weak signals, the glove recognised his intention 9 times out of 10, and he held a fork for the first time in four years. Dr Nassour sewed the glove himself and the fabric costs very little; as Prof Gordon Cheng puts it, 'we've found a solution that anyone can afford but still works very well'.
The team has trialled it with ALS and is now adapting it for stroke survivors, and neurologist Prof Tobias Wächter believes it could help people with flaccid paralysis from nerve damage or polyneuropathy.
To put it in context. this is early research, built so far around a single patient, and there is no UK availability yet; realistically, routine use here is several years away. ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery says: an affordable device that reads your intention to move and then completes the movement is a rare thing in hand rehab. And if the stroke version works as well as this, it's possibly one to watch for updates on. 🧠💙
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Told she might not survive the night, she's now doing brilliantly! 🧠💙 In June last year, just weeks after her 50th birthday, Hayley Shaher from Ingleby Barwick was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm; in October, while awaiting surgery at James Cook Hospital, she suffered a bleed on the brain and a catastrophic stroke, and, like many of us on ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery, her family were told it was touch and go whether she would survive the night...
Survive, she did. At North Tees Hospital, he went from being hoisted and unable to sit up, to standing with assistance by December, to giving her husband Nasser a standing hug on his birthday without support. By February she was taking her first tentative steps; physio was brutal at times, but she showed up every single day and never refused, because she knew that was what would get her better. After 23 weeks she has now walked out of hospital... 'far from fixed', in her words, but walking.
She has also raised over £5,400 for the ward that helped her, and – realising how isolating recovery can be, set up a fortnightly Stroke Survivor Support Group in Stockton, which drew 14 people aged from 22 upwards to its first meeting. ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery says 'you're doing amazingly, Hayley!'. 🧠💪
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This stoke recovery book is Essential Reading
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 July 2020
This is the book that anyone who has had a stroke, or is associated with a stroke survivor, must read. It is just not possible to write a book about stroke survival unless you have experienced the sheer terror of it first-hand. Tom Balchin outlines what happens when you have a stroke, what help is (or should be) at hand, provides practical help with coping strategies and exercises. What he hasn't provided in this book probably isn't worth knowing. I just wish it had been available when I had my stroke 6 years ago, when I (and my husband) hit a wall of confusion, lack of information and poor NHS after-care. Things could have been so different! I have learned things from this book even now and intend to follow them up. A Brilliant Book.
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 ;)
www.strokesolutions.co.uk/product/had-a-stroke-now-what-book/
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A useful website for anyone with spasticity. It tells you about diagnosis, treatment and living with spasticity.
It also includes helpful tips from people living with the condition on how to manage it.
lifewithspasticity.com/
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There is absolutely no need to do hundreds of resistance exercises. In contrast, performing a few of the best body-weight exercises is actually far more efficient and much less costly. Less is most definitely more in this respect.
Not sure what you need to do/how to do it? We have trainers throughout the country who can help you. Call us on 0203 053 0111 or email support@arni.uk.com to find out if there's one near you.
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The best results I’ve seen are when people start to do new hobbies which creatively challenge their own functional limitations. Producing artwork, music making, swimming, cooking, indoor shooting, model railway or Airfix kit constructing and photography are all examples which can be made to be highly rehabilitative if used to directly/knowingly/progressively to tackle motor limitations.
Many more examples of these are revealed in the ‘Had a Stroke? Now What?‘ book, including the combination of ‘hobbies’ that I used to support my very successful upper limb rehabilitation.
So, it will be time to get out there and do all sorts of things that are open to you as you seek to create (and get healthy) in the 21st century. And this will open up a whole new tranche of innovative new recovery possibilities. You’ll see. I can promise you that the ‘doing’ of a creative hobby or two which repetitively involves your more-affected limbs is the most efficient way to keep recovery and self-management efforts going over the long term. It’s the ‘no-rehab optimal rehab style’!
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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.
www.justgiving.com/page/petr-pokorny-6?utm_medium=FA&utm_source=CL
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