Parenting After Stroke – Navigating the Challenges
It’s normal for parents to go the extra mile to make their children happy and healthy. But, how many stroke survivors with serious impairments can do that? Not too many.
Raising children is challenging under any circumstances, but even greater obstacles for parents after their strokes. Depending on the nature of your stroke-led disability, any task might be more challenging...
A Guide to Flying After Stroke
First air travel after stroke can be overwhelming and out of your comfort zone. Despite your doctor’s assurance, you may ask yourself a number of times if it is safe to fly after a stroke. Thankfully, the answer is YES. The Aerospace Medical Association Guidelines (2003) suggests that it is safe to fly once 2 weeks have passed after...
7 Coping Strategies to Deal with Mood Swings after Stroke
Sometimes, a stroke affects the emotion center of the brain and creates emotional instability. However, sometimes, stroke recovery can also affect emotions simply due to the radically different lifestyle involved. This is why emotions like depression, anxiety, and grief are highly common after stroke.
Because emotions are difficult to deal with, the best thing a stroke survivor can do is...
15 Tricks to Recover Faster After Stroke
The process of stroke recovery is a long one. It takes hard work and dedication to regain full function. There are no quick-fixes that can make stroke recovery happen overnight; however, certain strategies can help you speed up the process. Curious? Below, we offer a few ways to rise above stroke-driven challenges and fasten the stroke recovery.
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9 Stroke Myths Busted
Certain myths about stroke—though scientifically wrong—can seem to make sense, especially when they are rooted in old theories. Sadly, these myths can lead to needless worry and even hinder good prevention and treatment decisions. To make you learn more about stroke and to better understand how it is unique from a heart attack, we thought of highlighting some common...
6 Ways to Get Past Plateau After Stroke
The road to recovery after stroke is not always a straight line. Oftentimes there is rapid recovery during the first three months, but then the progress slows down. This eventually leads to a plateau in recovery after about six months.
In a scenario where varying levels of paralysis are common, a shift in mindset and making little changes to lifestyle...
‘9zest Experience’ Now Available on Web
9zest recently launched the web version for 9zest Parkinson’s Therapy, 9zest Stroke Rehab and 9zest FixHealth. The web version will allow 9zest users to workout via a web browser. This implies that the same 9zest experience will be available on a bigger screen, i.e., desktop, laptop and Smart TV (using Chromecast, Roku, etc.).
This also means 9zest therapeutic solutions now...
Returning to Work after Stroke? Here’re Some Tips to Manage Stress
Even if you are advised by your doctor and occupational therapist to return to work, doing so can be daunting. You may physically find yourself able to return to work physically, but preparing for this transition can come with frequent episodes of anxiety, stress and panic episodes.
Your legs might feel shaky, your palms might be sweaty, the colors, sounds,...
A Stroke Survivor’s Guide to Gardening at Home
Gardening at home can be a good way to get your life back after a stroke. In fact, compared with traditional rehab methods, gardening has been seen as a more occupation-based intervention to help stroke survivors improve functional performance. At times, referred as the horticultural therapy, gardening is gaining more attention as a way to reduce pain, improve attention,...
NIH Funded Research Shows 9zest App Helps in Stroke Rehabilitation
At 9zest, we believe that neurological health can be improved by providing practitioners and patients with easily-accessible clinical trial information. Hence, we are committed to public disclosure of our clinical research, whether the study results are positive or negative. We strongly believe that doing so is fundamental to the advancement of medical science.
Recently, we completed a clinical trial that...