Top 3 Exercises for Weak Arm After Stroke (Simple Do-It-Yourself)

Famous Physical Therapist's Bob Schrupp and Brad Heineck along with guest Pat Beckman demonstrate the top 3 exercises for a weak arm after having a stroke. These are exercises that can be performed independently by the person who suffered from the stroke.
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[@ghodeejahalexander583]

Hey could you do more videos collaborating with occupational therapy. I know you gentlemen are physical therapist but thought id ask anyway.

[@quadriciser]

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[@PhotoLainee61]

Thank you for all these wonderful exercises. Lainee

[@notmeanymore3097]

I like the ideas thank you so much for sharing. Please keep them going.

[@badaryasin562]

Thanks u peoples for serving humanity

[@johnnyhall4856]

very helpful THANK YOU!!!

[@robinamorris8184]

Thankyou very helpful for frozen shoulder too

[@poojahm120]

Thank you so much for sharing the above video. I face a lot of difficulty in raising my left arm ( weak arm - probably the scapula) . Cannot raise it up or across the head

[@quadriciser]

Awesome video!

[@drizzd69]

I dont know if u are the most famus physio on the internet but for sure u are the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@tiabarker1596]

thank you somuch

[@mrs.y]

Thank you for this video. I had a mild stroke 3 days ago, and my left side has been a nightmare. I'm going to try this.

[@RyanFixesCars]

Hey how has you recovery developed? Have you regained movement?

[@mrstevek118]

good video guys

[@Jeb767]

Great video! definitely going to incorporate these exercises with my clients. Just some constructive criticism, would you be able to explain the functional benefit to these movements as well as the exact muscles being targeted? "Arms" is pretty general and I want to be able to explain the functional benefit as well as the muscles groups to my patients.

[@rakeshkaushik6558]

Nice video

[@riadarefin2994]

Thanks a lot......your videos are really very much helpfull for practice at home without any question .......

[@riadarefin2994]

Welcome ....

[@johnhoerber9253]

Hello, I had a stroke 2 weeks ago, my wife and I don’t have the money or means to do expensive physical therapy so we’re forced to seek different ways to do pt for little to no money in our home, your videos have been wonderful and have helped so much! Just wanted to thank u so much ! We were so grateful to have this information and instruction!

[@pallavikirad4692]

hello wl help u in all ways

[@Yewlogy91]

You guys have the best energy. Could you do more collabs with OT?

[@maryskitchen9222]

I wonder what will be in the documentation for this exercises. Thanks

[@spareme2586]

Hi, how many times a day can we do this? thank you so much.

[@carolinaviterironald1974]

Hi. My mom had a stroke 4 months ago and has developed something called thalamic pain. I was wondering if she can do this kind of exercises to help relaxing her shoulder? . Medication is not working and I suggested acupuncture which was totally dismissed by her neurologist. We are also trying Medical marihuana and that helps but I would like to help her at home somehow. I'm learning a lot with you and I am so thankful as we don't get much information about her condition here in Ecuador. Greetings and keep on your great work!

[@MrDaddyNew]

This is an excellent video, I was shot in my head in 2005 and have left paralysis my fist is closing in but I am going to keep the muscles firing with this routine

[@RashadSims-bh3zz]

Wtf

[@tanujasingh7317]

Omg

[@alisubhani3210]

My father is suffering from ischemic stroke one year before had a pt daily he has a wooden finger and a drop foot can push downwards but cant lift .i help him in walking by pushing his leg foward

[@prayalways]

✔✔✔✔✔✔✔Thank you.

[@FOFTW]

Hello. I was wondering if you could give me any advice on adaptive equipment. My father recently returned home after having a severe stroke, he is on 4 lpm O2 via N/C and has a hx of CHF. He's also pretty deconditioned. He'd like to get back to his prior level of smoking 2 packs a day so I was wondering if you had any advice on how to improve his UE coordination to do his favorite hobby again. Thanks!

[@gmathevas]

My dad had a stroke 3 days ago and he suffered from hemiparesis on his left side of body. He is still in the hospital, but I would like to know any chances that all these exercises work for him? Or is there any better exercise for him?

[@rayefisher9704]

problem is hand curls into fist I forgot about this exercise thank you

[@sandymusil7617]

Wonderful ideas! I had a stroke over 30 years ago, and I am noticing a lot of pain in my affected shoulder. I will certainly try these. Thanks!

[@joaquimrodriguez8961]

+Sandra Musil how long did it last?..., your stroke that is

[@sandymusil7617]

+joaquim Rodriguez I was 18 when my first stroke occurred, and then I had another stroke about a year later. I still have hemiparesis on my right side. (My first stroke occurred over 30 years ago.) 😀

[@joaquimrodriguez8961]

wow! , thanks for responding back .. I am assuming that you still have right side weakness?, not being nosey, just curious...

[@sandymusil7617]

Yes... not much happening at all with right arm and hand (a little with shoulder), and I walk with a cane.

[@khachdo92]

Hi, Thank you for the video. I am just wondering if this exercise is only for post stroke. I don't think I had a stroke but suddenly my arms became so weak. They feel painful, fatigue, tingling, burning, tearing... and more... just different feelings at different times... I had to cancel my gym membership because I can't carry more than 10 pounds. I have an appointment with a neurologist next month but I am hoping nerves are not dead yet.

[@riadarefin2994]

Please help me...... One of my relative can not up his left hand after stroke. He feels pain but he can move it. He can not move it back side also.so suggest me which exercise I should do for him......!

[@physiotherapyhorana4006]

Good

[@lswolfville]

We do say "Physiotherapist" up here in Canada!

[@physiotherapistpaulina9340]

We say both in BC Canada. Our college is called the College of Physical Therapists of BC :) . You guys do a great job.

[@rayoneal9115]

We got hand movement after one day of at home therapy after trying this video

[@dagninodag]

Hello Bob, Brad a Pat, is there treatment for a 4 year old , who has suffered shake baby agression at the age of 1, and lost speacially the movement of the right arm? Danilo from Brazil

[@yesok1333]

hello my unty had stroke for the last 1yr on the left side of her body she got lot of stiffness even the exercise is still going on.so tel me what to do for her

[@ZanyZebra24]

Go OT!

[@danladiachor9127]

Nice Post. My Mother(Old) had stroke two yrs now. pls what equipment and best type of exercises can be use for Old people. She is always crying and it has affected her speech.

[@granny729]

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[@lanceswanson1712]

I was born with hemiplegia, im 24years old how do i maximize use of my right side?

[@shrivastavphysioclinicburhanpu]

Plz also describe Exe for spastic flex finger n fist

[@DarylV08]

Will these exercises benefit me even if I had my stroke 12 years ago?

[@wilgensmistilien64]

what size ball is that?

[@amaz13]

It’s 2019 and the USWNT won the World Cup again!

[@briangode1381]

I had a small stroke January 2014 since February 2 2014 am at the grand nursing home Whitestone queens New York City I see these videos on stroke it was my left the gym volks here in the gym donot do much for my left side raising my left arm properly if could be or try more there my right arm is fine I would love more attempts try to do more there also I have said my left hand is bad why fix what is not broken it is my left side I am repeating myself am sick of not doing more or trying to do better where I need it more they are very nasty about we can not look at I pad or do that I would love to hear from others on this when I was at northport New York Suffolk county Long Island us army veteran for medical care sepsis there I was given for several years bad care until it got so bad I nearly died from it now I want to see orthopedics a rn nurse told me but the home volks or we’ll act like I am doing a federal crime also I only have one pair of shoes usable but in need of new ones when no visitors allowed any more until when who knows this is important to me my health living nicer or more I cannot not even leave the room the bs here is so unnessacerry sickening too many wrong calls volks I never knew or care about I never did or would ask for very much but I get the run around sorry volks life is never always so wonderful

[@Piyus_Life]

It's called MRP...... I know coz I have taken training for the same

[@ZeeshanGs9]

sir im from india im 23 years after a brain injury my left side became weak now i cant move hand fingers and wrist is there any exercise

[@ZeeshanGs9]

and my name is jerif ahmed commented from another account

[@alexanderson1193]

why dont you just do a childs yoga pose to each side? Im hemiplegic and this helps me alot and I dont have to buy any equipment

[@sauravmisraz]

Well, I cant even place my hand properly to carryout these excersises after having a severe ischemic stroke 3 yrs back. No strength in extensor muscles & flexor group is heavily spstic. Elbow joint is almost tight. However shoulder joint & deltoid muscle has no power. Feels like flacid. Fingures are bent & tight due to spastisity. Plz guide how to proceed. By d way I have left side hemiplegia. Botox therapy is also done couple of times along with physiotherapy. But no result.plz upload some videos accordingly

[@alghifary7974]

Saurav Misra try to inhibit the spatic with a little massage and move the joint or lookup to youtube to know the procedure

[@tiabarker1596]

I had two strokes and still can't move my left arm

[@pigeonsxgaspxrun]

You may not be able to do these exercises if the person has a shoulder subluxation. Right?

[@pigeonsxgaspxrun]

Thanks so much!

[@SBS-22]

Instead of moving with movement just let pateint move arm only. Sometimes trunk help them to do movement.

[@rosiesweeney7856]

Why don't you use real stroke patients for these excerises, it's so easy for the abler bodied.

[@markvest9692]

I agree , its impossible for a well person to duplicate how a stroke victim can move and respond

[@alexanderson1193]

because the flaws in this exercise would show up either it would be way too easy or way to hard

[@miamimagicians]

I kind of agree with that

[@CrazyAsianDude]

Because it's showing what should be done in the standard way. As a student nurse seeing the standard way enables you to compare what is different and correcting it to what should be done. I hope this helps.

[@sksunnykoh]

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[@MPam1619]

What is the difference between a paralyzed arm and a weak arm? Will this do anything for a paralyzed arm?

[@BobandBrad]

In a paralyzed arm the brain needs to heal- and swelling to go down. Or different part of the brain needs to help out. Good luck Bob

[@martab2626]

2022

[@gogirl7382]

What if the person can not open their hand then what do you do first for these exercises?

[@tarasalley7075]

good question. I wouldld love to b able to type but my hand won't cooperate

[@joshuawilson1097]

I find a ball in the hand provides a good stretch and keeps the wrist in a superior position to complete the towel slide exercise.

[@crazyman6099]

For my grandma who’s 83

[@lauramackinnon7578]

What height is ur big ball in inches.

[@Peta-Hazel-thornhill-Bim]

UP here in Ontario, Canada we have Govt paid healthcare and they go by the now old notion that after four months, there will be no more improvement so there's no more coverage after that time, you're discharged on your own from Rehab to try to cope on your own coin, if you got money: i have a friend who became frustrated and decided to start from ground zero four years post-stroke so i will show her those arm exercises for her non-working left arm as i agree with her not to quit on herself that something is better than doing nothing more as the govt is suggesting to poor people, others that can afford spend money on private PT and OT, sorry I ran on like to talk By the way, do you have any exercises for sole of the foot pain across where the toes join the foot - metarsal - someone said frozen water bottle roll under foot?/

[@Peta-Hazel-thornhill-Bim]

Thank you for your prompt reply

[@davidkalyabulo1318]

Iam watching 2021

[@lachmieradjbansi2625]

any exersice for stroke fingers ??

[@christosemper8715]

Lachmie Radj Bansi splinting if there is a strong flexor synergy and combine that with reflex inhibiting positioning and strengthening of the antagonists.

[@mgd.7819]

Can you tell us how do you document all this therapy exercises especially if this done in skilled nursing....just wondering how do you incorporate it in the notes thank you

[@badaryasin562]

You people serving v much to paralysed peoples i appriciate u

[@jaythakkar9069]

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[@elaineszumanski70]

These guys are the worst