Stroke Recovery: How to Use Your Affected Arm After Stroke

No matter if you have no functional movement or a considerable amount of movement in your affected arm, it's important to use it in your daily activities. In this video, you will learn about the four levels of hemiplegic arm use and will be given demonstrations on how to use your affected arm in day to day activities. To order the foam cylinders mentioned in this video, please visit: amzn.to/3xnlpsD. To learn more about coping with life after stroke, please subscribe to the channel or visit injuryrecoverycoaching.com.
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[@user-eh9li5tx7h]

This is a very good video. Lots of other coaches explain complex and difficult exercises that very good but very difficult to perform. The advice in this video is simply to involve your affected arm and hand as much as possible. That's it, and it is the most important advice of all.

[@anthonyalfredyorke1621]

Many thanks for your help, have a happy Christmas and New year. PEACE AND LOVE TO EVERYONE ❤❤

[@RuthParamel]

Thank you for sharing

[@kentallen8481]

This is a very good..

[@yaronkl]

I would. if only I coulld keeo my finger from curling and arm from flexing and pulling back. But thank you for empasizing this. Its been 28 months for me.

[@lavernerandolph5478]

Thank you ❤you are very inspiring

[@homeralbufera7068]

Informative video

[@garysigretto9453]

very informative,never quit!

[@user-oz1zz3px4p]

2yr after My stoke and an operation with a brain bypass Mi fingers can t het a grupo yet,tus for sharing

[@NightLighter63]

Very well done with great examples! This OT gives you 👍👍! I'll be sharing this video.

[@brijmohansarna9941]

Very very educative

[@frankpyanoe9420]

Great information. Maintaining movement means everything!

[@poojahm120]

Awesome video , both briefed and showed how to go about the exercise. In my case my left arm is very weak. Will add this to my routine.

[@jesuscarrizal7098]

I like this video you’re very helpful and I do exactly what you’ve been doing I’ve been doing

[@robustrob1]

very informative, had stroke 1 1/2 years ago and little shoulder, arm and hand

[@injuryrecoverycoaching8755]

Hi! Can't emphasis enough to keep moving that arm/shoulder/hand with ranging, massaging, tapping, talking to it, visualizing it moving and doing normal activities, and using it as a stabilizer. I like to think of it as YOU are controlling the arm, the arm isn't controlling you or your life!

[@poojahm120]

Thank you so much for sharing the above. Unfortunately I am not able to raise my arm. Or cross over the head. To touch my, ,( right) ear

[@samanthasims7123]

Thank u maam

[@Coolmike19]

This is some great tips, I been doing some movement with my affected arm but their is alot more I can do. Right now I been close the door to the car holding my toothbrush and flicking the light switch on than off and also pushing food on the Fork. Thank a lot.

[@injuryrecoverycoaching8755]

You got it! Using your affected arm/hand in everyday activities is so important. For more ideas, check out some of my more later videos on KZbin Channel: Injury Recovery Coaching.

[@noradennis4361]

I'm at the very beginning. I can't type or move my hand, but I have been attempting to brush my teeth with my right hand with the left assisting and as I'm an artist, having my right arm stable the paper as I color images with my left, I'm thinking about trying to draw (that's what I did for years before the stroke) knowing I will not be able to do fine drawing yet. I just don't know how to stop that spasticity that over rides my movement making the fingers curl in.

[@injuryrecoverycoaching8755]

You can try using the foam cylinder for the pencil amzn.to/3xnlpsD or wrap the pencil in washcloth and tape onto the pencil. That way you have a better grasp and will prevent fingers from curling in. I think that's a great idea to try something you used to do - just start with small expectations...maybe abstract art...and build from there. Good luck!

[@noradennis4361]

@@injuryrecoverycoaching8755 Thank you.

[@michaello317]

What about subluxation shoulder it very hard to move shoulder and arm

[@russellwisniewski4161]

14 yrs post stroke left hemipeligic pulling my pants up over the left side is a struggle, shirt always untucked.

[@fifthavenuegirl]

Hello. I really appreciate your videos. This is an excellent video. I would say I am at the gross assist stage right now. Trying to work on the next level. I'm left handed normally. .I was wondering have you had a stroke and recovered. You seem to understand. I was very strong before the stroke in October 2022. I could Lift £50 bags of horse feed, no problem. Stack 3 Bales. I lost my horses dogs. Chickens, everything that meant everything to me. I'm back at my mini ranch alone. Working out everyday. I lost use of my left hand. And my leg, I have foot drop. I workout all the time. If I miss even half a day, my arm gets tight. I'm a fighter. But I get very depressed and alternate with massive sadness, because my whole purpose Was my animals? And I do not want to live. In a residential neighborhood. I even used to type over 100 words a minute. I turned on the voice to text today. I'm very worried. But worry doesn't help I know.

[@injuryrecoverycoaching8755]

It's not easy being thrust into a new way of living...of being. I think it's so important that, no matter what your limitations, you find something you can do and enjoy the present life you have. If you love animals, can you get a small pet that you can care for? Be creative and don't let your expectations of how you "should be" stop you. You are more capable than you give yourself credit for, I'm sure!

[@fifthavenuegirl]

@@injuryrecoverycoaching8755 Hi do you still do the coaching? I clicked on your link, but it was. Uh, broken page. Or not working. Yes, I. Did get a puppy, which is a lot? I have to master having a puppy before I can have anything else And I fortunately live in a beautiful place with hummingbirds. Deer bunnies, So thank goodness I. Be around them, but I'm very sad, but I really miss my horses a lot and my dog.

[@sumanngon]

Fresh on stroke recovery, but my deltoids muscles have come down hence its pain ful to move my arm high or fold properly and even if I move my fingers ....the moment I become aware I am moving my fingers, it stiffens and I am no longer move anything

[@injuryrecoverycoaching8755]

Without seeing you, it is difficult to really know what is going on. With that said, sounds like you may not have good mobility in your scapula which is causing pain during arm raises. Check out this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnTakJV4h5yKapI It also sounds like you may be getting some spasticity, which is locking your fingers up. If that is the case, then continue to stretch, stretch, stretch them out regularly. You can also use mental imagery to help relax them. The goal is to not only relax the spastic muscles but to activate the opposite muscles. Please check out my other videos for ideas about doing these things. Let me know how things work out!

[@mohammedkader6748]

Hi my fingers are stil not moving. It's been 1 year now

[@lazysleeper7174]

Could you write???