Stroke APHASIA
A home rehab routine is a must for any stroke survivor who wants to continue making progress, but it can take up a ton of time in your day. Let’s talk about something really NEAT that can help you get more out of your home therapy in less time!
– Health
– Neuroplasticity
– More Progress
Speech therapy exercise for aphasia, Parkinson’s and apraxia of speech. These exercises are for individuals with expressive language or speech difficulties secondary to neurologic injury such as stroke and brain injury. Follow along at home or, if you are a caregiver, try this with your loved one!
An apple a day
keeps the doctor away
A penny saved,
is a penny earned
Singing exercises to promote speech and language skills for stroke rehabilitation and individuals with expressive language difficulties including aphasia, Parkinson’s and apraxia of speech. Research has shown that singing can help facilitate speech output in patients with non-fluent aphasia.
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Stroke and brain injury recovery exercise for speech and language using opposite completion for individuals with word finding difficulties, apraxia of speech and aphasia. Follow along at home for your practice!
Aphasia Speech Therapy at Home
Friend and enemy
Give amd take
Left and right
East and west
Awful Things Doctors and Therapists Actually Said to Stroke Survivors – OT Reacts
I asked the community, “What was the worst advice you got about stroke recovery from a healthcare professional?” and you all delivered. We’ll debunk myths that healthcare professionals perpetuate and blatantly wrong advice from therapists!
– Stroke survivor Debra Meyerson recounts her post-stroke journey. Read about her experience and what has been helping her to heal.
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– The likelihood of improvement after stroke varies with the nature and severity of the initial deficit. Approximately 35 percent of survivors with initial paralysis of the leg do not regain useful function, and 20 to 25 percent of all survivors are unable to walk without full physical assistance.2 Six months after stroke, about 65 percent of patients cannot incorporate the affected hand into their usual activities.
Stroke affects 15 million people worldwide and approximately 800,000 people in the United States, with an estimated one third (35%) of stroke survivors left with aphasia in the chronic stage.
Singing-based treatments of aphasia can improve language outcomes, but the neural benefits of group-based singing in aphasia are unknown.
Here are seven cues for helping someone with aphasia to find their words. I give examples for each cue. Thanks for watching!
Seven Aphasia Cueing Tips
Aphasia is a disorder where you have problems speaking or understanding what other people say. It usually happens because of damage to part of your brain but can also happen with conditions that disrupt how your brain works. There are also multiple types of aphasia. The location of the damage in your brain determines the type of aphasia you have.
Dr. Judy Gooch, a rehabilitation physician gives a basic overview of spasticity.
Symptoms of spasticity can vary from being mild stiffness or tightening of muscles to painful and uncontrollable spasms. Pain or tightness in joints is also common in spasticity.
– Muscle stiffness, causing movements to be less precise and making certain tasks difficult to perform
– Muscle spasms, causing uncontrollable and often painful muscle contractions
– Involuntary crossing of the legs
– Muscle and joint deformities
– Muscle fatigue
– Inhibition of longitudinal muscle growth
– Inhibition of protein synthesis in muscle cells
Aphasia is a complex language and communication disorder resulting from damage to the language centres of the brain. This damage may be caused by:
– A stroke.
– A head injury.
– A brain tumour.
– Another neurological illness.
Aphasia is an acquired neurogenic language disorder resulting from an injury to the brain, typically the left hemisphere, that affects the functioning of core elements of the language network. Aphasia involves varying degrees of impairment in four primary areas:
– spoken language expression
– written expression
– spoken language comprehension
– reading comprehension
– Aphasia, aphasia, aphasia!
– I suspect that not really having any notions about strokes probably helped me, as it turns out that strokes are incredibly individual. For example, my biggest problem is fatigue. Although you often hear from survivors that tiredness is an issue, for me it is the issue; the part of my brain that controls sleep was affected, and I basically didn’t dream for the better part of a decade. It turns out that dreaming is a critical thing for being awake the next day.
– Stroke happens when blood flow to a part of your brain is cut off. Without the oxygen in blood, brain cells start dying within minutes. A stroke can happen in two main ways Something blocks the flow of blood, or something causes bleeding in the brain.