Stroke Patients do not know what to do after discharge and have a one year window to find therapy tools that get the job done.

Two Hand Therapy boards, designed for
the patient and therapist.

• Self Supported
• Two Sided A-frame
• Folds

The stroke patient must be educated before leaving the clinic:

a. Overtraining in early childhood development is key to restoring hand function.

b. Reach overtraining is not just another therapy, rather it is the brain's formula for remapping its pathways back to functional movement.

c. Patients must understand that ADL’S, (eating, grooming, hygiene and home tasks) lacks the power of sequential drill. The brain must have a pattern to follow.

d. The reach pattern offered with these boards initiates the sequence in early development.

If the patient lacks this knowledge before leaving the clinic, chances of recovery are slim. Overwhelming depression reduces the patient to mere survival.

If you are a patient - do you know what type of trauma and muscle tone you are dealing with?

Do you have

a. Flaccid or floppy tone?

This kind of muscle tone is favorable for overlearning and if therapy starts within the first year, recovery can be seen in as little as 3 months.

With flaccid type *no functional movement is necessary – the brain needs a start and will mimic the movement in time.

Some types, as with the coronary stroke, needs physician approval as to the degree of exertion used by the patient

Strengthen your unaffected arm to support your affected extremity.

Subluxation of the shoulder is corrected also with early tx.

b. Spasticity

This kind, if all-pervasive (in all portions of the arm) will need prior tx.

c. Mixed muscle tone as - floppy, spastic and tones in between.

Needs a good assessment - if spasticity is mixed with flaccidity, botox is needed. Spastic tone needs prior tx.
*Physicians now have experience with this method of tx.

Only when the spasticity is broken up can you begin a method movement therapy.

View video from the National Stroke Association on spasticity.

State of the art treatment video

The best we have to offer in the line of take home modes of therapy are not enough to motivate the users to full hand recovery. 75% of stroke patients go untreated.

Short hospital stays, complications of trauma, and the usual regime of ADL's has not and can not lead a patient to full hand recovery.

Twin graded activity boards offer the patient/therapist motivation by using the same therapy at home as in the clinic. The therapist models various reaches and then sends the patient home with the same instructions. Offering the essentials to fundamental recovery.

This concept is powerful, as it tends to help the patient with the complications of trauma and the therapist dealing with short hospital stays.

In addition, the clinical board utilizes a more measurable tool for outpatient results.

and another for take-home.