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Weightbearing is exactly what it sounds like. Put weight through your limbs, but after a CVA (cerebral vascular accident) or neurological insult, it can feel impossible, especially if you have hemipelegia. Here is the thing though, many things after a neurological insult FEEL impossible, but they aren’t impossible they are just HARD. Like really hard. Why do we need it? Besides helping us balance, the weight we put into our hands and feet act like a feedback loop for our brains. There are these

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Hi, I’m Priya. I’m 28 and from Sydney, Australia.  Back in July 2015, when I was 24, I was struck with Gastro for a week. That weekend my parents took me to the hospital. I was young and reasonably fit so I don’t think anyone thought it was anything serious and that maybe I was dehydrated. My dad had to help me in to the ED as my left leg was paralyzed and dragging. The triage nurse advised us that it would be a two and a half wait.  It wasn’t until they were taking me to get blood tests done

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Math was not my forte growing up. I remember taking pre-calculus for about a week and having to change classes because I was so lost, even with a math tutor! I had a 4.0 GPA, but I couldn’t “math” as I call it - math can be a verb, right?! After graduating I did not put much effort into improving my math skills because calculators were readily available. As technology advanced, we had one at our fingertips at all times. “Hey Siri, what is 15% off of $35?” Not too long ago my husband looked at

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So 12 years ago I suffered a stroke as a result of overtraining for a fight. I was an amateur boxer and boxing coach. I was training 6 to 8 hours a day for 6 days a week and even on my rest day I was still shadow boxing so I didn't get the necessary rest. One day a blood vessel burst in my head and i suffered a stroke. As a result of my stroke I have horrible balance and weakness in my left side . My balance is really bad. I need the assistance of a Walker to get around. Fast forward 5 years

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Hi my name is Zavdy Ortega I’m 32. About 10 months ago, I had a baby. Seven days after that I had a massive stroke. The only thing I would ever worry about was staying healthy so my baby could grow strong inside of me but I never thought having a stroke was a risk. I was a very healthy person. I never drank or smoked growing up. I continued to be pretty healthy during the pregnancy because I wanted my baby to be really healthy and very strong. So I tried to do as much as I could for this new

February

2019