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This concise and practical book is a 'how-to' in the truest sense of the word - it charts a path through the maze for you and enables you quickly to become the expert-patient. / The Street-wise guide offers you real-life options for real self-recovery and self-management of the physical limitations caused by stroke. / The author is himself a stroke survivor who has created, over the last twenty years, an internationally-known new approach to innovative stroke rehabilitation. / Every stroke results in different outcomes, dependent on thousands of variables. A clear-cut background to stroke and the problems it may cause is presented here. Here you will learn: * Why your own stroke has caused physical and psychological limitations. *How to regain action control and self-manage using evidence-based and innovative strategies. *How to take advantage of your brain's capacity for neuroplasticity by learning how to dramatically extend the 'therapeutic time window' you may be told about. / Dr. Balchin reveals how best to recover lower and upper limb action control as well as strength and cardiovascular health via the introduction of a special re-training programme that you can adopt, adapt and explore further to your own requirements. / He shows you how to transition to successful 'life after stroke' - whatever is your ultimate goal. This may be about enhancing your quality of life and coping abilities or seeking ultimately to get back to work. Dr. Balchin shows here how novel home-use and clinically-based tools based on technologies to improve motor recovery can work. The reader is offered key information on robotic devices, and on brain computer interfaces, as well as virtual reality and non-invasive brain stimulation. / Dr. Balchin explains the drugs that stroke survivors are prescribed and what they do, how to access further direct clinical and community sources and what you need to know of the availability of further cutting-edge interventions on the horizon. / The book will be of major assistance to anyone who has had the misfortune to have had a stroke and is entering the recovery phase, and to their families and supporters. The text is written for stroke survivors, but it has considerable relevance to those with other neurologically disabling conditions, such as acquired brain injury or spinal injury. / Most importantly, this book will help you to show those who care about you most that you can do it. You can beat stroke!

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Who better to write a guide to stroke recovery than someone who has had one? And of those, there can be none better than Tom. He's smart, and studied the science to find ways to 'go beyond the usual'. No quackery, this, but an inspirational and practical evidence - and experienced-based recipe for recovery. I strongly commend it. - Professor Hugh Montgomery, Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, UCL, Consultant Intensivist at the Whittington Hospital, Head of Centre at the Human Health and Performance, UCL Division of Medicine, Director of Research at The Institute for Sport, Exercise and Health, London. The book is an excellent guide for stroke survivors. It provides essential information about multidimensional aspects of stroke from its impacts on the body to rehabilitation strategies. The illustration of fundamental exercises and explanation of evidence-based practice models in simple way even make it more interesting for readers. - Dr Mohsen Shafizadeh, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Motor Control and Movement Analysis, Sheffield Hallam University. This comprehensive and empowering book is a must-read for stroke survivors and their families. The book uses Tom Balchin's own experience of stroke, as well as his work with others over the past 20 years. It is highly readable and provides clear explanations of every step of the stroke journey as well as no-nonsense practical steps that everyone can take to improve their quality of life after stroke. - Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Director, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging & Director, Plasticity Group at Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Oxford University. This is an engaging, easy to read book, suitable for anyone on their journey following a stroke as well as for their family, friends and carers. It focuses on how to personally tailor the retraining of mind and body to optimise recovery from stroke. Tom's messages instil hope and confidence, and a desire to try yet harder and achieve great things that matter to the individual; yet the book is also written with compassion and kindness - to accept limitations that may remain. Thank you, Tom, for putting together this 'roadmap to recovery' for stroke survivors. - Professor Sarah Dean, Professor of Psychology Applied to Rehabilitation and Health, University of Exeter Medical School.

"""The book is an excellent guide for stroke survivors. It provides essential information about multidimensional aspects of stroke from its impacts on the body to rehabilitation strategies. The illustration of fundamental exercises and explanation of evidence-based practice models in simple way even make it more interesting for readers."" - Dr Mohsen Shafizadeh, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Motor Control and Movement Analysis, Sheffield Hallam University. ""This comprehensive and empowering book is a must-read for stroke survivors and their families. The book uses Tom Balchin's own experience of stroke, as well as his work with others over the past 20 years. It is highly readable and provides clear explanations of every step of the stroke journey as well as no-nonsense practical steps that everyone can take to improve their quality of life after stroke."" - Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Director, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging & Director, Plasticity Group at Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Oxford University. ""This is an engaging, easy to read book, suitable for anyone on their journey following a stroke as well as for their family, friends and carers. It focuses on how to personally tailor the retraining of mind and body to optimise recovery from stroke. Tom's messages instil hope and confidence, and a desire to try yet harder and achieve great things that matter to the individual; yet the book is also written with compassion and kindness - to accept limitations that may remain. Thank you, Tom, for putting together this 'roadmap to recovery' for stroke survivors."" - Professor Sarah Dean, Professor of Psychology Applied to Rehabilitation and Health, University of Exeter Medical School. ""Who better to write a guide to stroke recovery than someone who has had one? And of those, there can be none better than Tom. He's smart, and studied the science to find ways to 'go beyond the usual'. No quackery, this, but an inspirational and practical evidence - and experienced-based recipe for recovery. I strongly commend it."" - Professor Hugh Montgomery, Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, UCL, Consultant Intensivist at the Whittington Hospital, Head of Centre at the Human Health and Performance, UCL Division of Medicine, Director of Research at The Institute for Sport, Exercise and Health, London."

The book is an excellent guide for stroke survivors. It provides essential information about multidimensional aspects of stroke from its impacts on the body to rehabilitation strategies. The illustration of fundamental exercises and explanation of evidence-based practice models in simple way even make it more interesting for readers. - Dr Mohsen Shafizadeh, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Motor Control and Movement Analysis, Sheffield Hallam University. This comprehensive and empowering book is a must-read for stroke survivors and their families. The book uses Tom Balchin's own experience of stroke, as well as his work with others over the past 20 years. It is highly readable and provides clear explanations of every step of the stroke journey as well as no-nonsense practical steps that everyone can take to improve their quality of life after stroke. - Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Director, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging & Director, Plasticity Group at Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Oxford University. This is an engaging, easy to read book, suitable for anyone on their journey following a stroke as well as for their family, friends and carers. It focuses on how to personally tailor the retraining of mind and body to optimise recovery from stroke. Tom's messages instil hope and confidence, and a desire to try yet harder and achieve great things that matter to the individual; yet the book is also written with compassion and kindness - to accept limitations that may remain. Thank you, Tom, for putting together this 'roadmap to recovery' for stroke survivors. - Professor Sarah Dean, Professor of Psychology Applied to Rehabilitation and Health, University of Exeter Medical School. Who better to write a guide to stroke recovery than someone who has had one? And of those, there can be none better than Tom. He's smart, and studied the science to find ways to 'go beyond the usual'. No quackery, this, but an inspirational and practical evidence - and experienced-based recipe for recovery. I strongly commend it. - Professor Hugh Montgomery, Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, UCL, Consultant Intensivist at the Whittington Hospital, Head of Centre at the Human Health and Performance, UCL Division of Medicine, Director of Research at The Institute for Sport, Exercise and Health, London.

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Dr. Tom Balchin, MEd, PhD, FRSB, is the Founder and Director of the ARNI Institute [Action for Rehabilitation from Neurological Injury]. He has worked at Goldsmiths College, University of London, Brunel, Reading and Middlesex Universities specialising in high ability, gifted education, the creative brain and stroke rehabilitation. He is currently Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Oxford Brookes University.

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