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Episode notes: Today Ruth talks about 2020 and the possibilities that exist in cures, health and rehab...
Ruth is a stroke survivor sharing tips and advice for rehab, recovery and healthy living including nutrition, exercises, personal care, healing and maintaining a grateful attitude. She can be found online at http://stroke.global or onlineRehabilitation.org were she offers help to stroke survivors and caregivers.
Welcome back to the Healthy Life Podcast.. as a stroke survivor we have unfortunately been ushered in to the “pre-existing” conditions list. Whereas you may have felt as if you were healthy before the stroke... now you’re damaged goods. Please don’t limit yourself and what you think you can regain. At this time you need to dig deep within and determine in your heart and mind that you are not only a survivor but also an overcomer! We are often surrounded by well meaning individuals that attempt to lower our expectations to “protect” us from being discouraged. I can honestly say within days of surviving my stroke I had reached rock bottom and I’ve been gaining internal strength ever since. Sure... I’d be lying if I said there haven’t been down days... days where I’m frustrated emotionally and struggled physically... but I’ve always had a plan to overcome. I have established a few close friends that I can vent to. It’s critical to plan for those days while working to become your best. Now I’m assuming a lot here... that you desire and are actively working at being your best! I hope that prior to your “event” you were focused on that already. It’s not something that you just jump into. That’s why restoration and healing can and usually are obvious goals. In fact, we have to have our goals lowered to remain content with accepting less than our best. After all we don’t want to dream or desire normalcy... well isn’t that what well meaning “friends” do.... lower the standards... encourage contentment so that we will be quiet and complacent. I must confess that stroke survivors struggle with “complaining” and our relationships often devolve and fall apart. It is imperative then that we make ourselves aware of this fatal flaw that often comes with stroke. It’s for this reason that we must understand what makes up a healthy body and healthy living. Too often people who have suffered from stroke are not really focused on anything but the “physical” restoration... they subject the mental and spiritual to the lessor category and as such devote less time to those areas. That is unfortunate because the body is a balance and it is important to apply energy to each of these areas. Improving that “data stream” will improve mental acuity and strengthen our mental health. Having that spiritual support will also assist in healing! It’s critical that we see ourselves as always improving, growing and changing rather than broken beyond repair and unfixable. If we don’t have plans in how to handle frustrations we will struggle. I will guarantee that your stroke will affect relationships and people who depended on your acting or being able to do specific things. Unfortunately I found that my stroke uncovered and brought to light those people in my life that were “fare weather” friends and they slowly faded and disappeared in their engagements with me. I also found that I needed to be aware of how and when I expressed things. It was easy to adopt a negative outlook and depress relationship development. I found a new need to assess myself regularly to make certain I was not overly negative. Amazingly pre-stroke it wasn’t an issue but post stroke it was a big one. I understand the struggles that we face and the daily reminders of the differences and challenges that I was now dealing with. But I also understood that I had an opportunity to learn about my new habits and tendencies and interrupt the negative tendencies and share with others to help them in seeing and dealing with them. Our plans and how we deal with our lives post stroke stroke is critical and will make restoration and healing possible! We become what we envision becoming... we are our own self fulfilling prophecy. Well it’s time to close for today...Thanks so much for joining me and remember to visit the stroke.global ( “onlinerehabilitation.org” ) web site often and give us your feedback! I also hope you’ll join me tomorrow... As always it’s an honor and a pleasure sharing with you today.... thank you! I pray that you’ve enjoyed this podcast... we keep it brief so it’s easy to add to your day... we are on iTunes, Spreaker, & Google Play and have links on our stroke.global page... please subscribe it boosts us in the ratings and helps us rise in the ranks so we can continue these stroke survivor podcasts. As always we want to thank our sponsor TCM Restoration for helping us by making this podcast possible. Check them out online at tcmrestoration.net And thank you again for listening... Please feel free to share this podcast with others, offer your feedback and questions, and follow us online at our website stroke.global or on our Facebook page. Well...this is Rehab Ruthie...hoping you’ll join us tomorrow as we continue in our adventure
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Episode notes: Today Ruth talks about 2020 weekly podcast schedule and plans for the new year...
Ruth is a stroke survivor sharing tips and advice for rehab, recovery and healthy living including nutrition, exercises, personal care, healing and maintaining a grateful attitude. She can be found online at http://stroke.global or onlineRehabilitation.org were she offers help to stroke survivors and caregivers.
Welcome back to the Healthy Life Podcast... it’s an exciting new year and we are going to expand our focus and talk about stroke, other pre-existing conditions and adding an interview session. Looking at each week we will break down podcasts with the following plan. We welcome emails and questions that people have so we can stay on track and discuss what people are concerned about. The week will be divided as:
On of the biggest and overwhelming concerns is that of pre-existing medical conditions. Well if you are a stroke survivor your qualified! But there are also a number of other issues that we will talk about that you may not be dealing with directly but are aware of these issues in others:
I hope as you view this new year you are motivated to face your medical battles head on with the gloves off. I was told by my physician that if I hadn’t made the tactical decision and change when I did I would probably have died within two years! That was over 16 years ago! So choosing to appropriately evaluate where you are now and where you want to be is critical. Give yourself a week and jot down two list.... your wants list and needs list. Then determine the path and choices you need to make to get there. Don’t say... “I don’t have enough money,” “I don’t have enough time.” Or “I don’t have enough support”... get it!
Don’t give up... don’t give in... make it your job to figure out what YOU want not what others think... take control over your life. Assume responsibility for yourself. Well it’s time to close for today...Thanks so much for joining me and remember to visit the stroke.global ( “onlinerehabilitation.org” ) web site often and give us your feedback! I also hope you’ll join me tomorrow... As always it’s an honor and a pleasure sharing with you today.... thank you! I pray that you’ve enjoyed this podcast... we keep it brief so it’s easy to add to your day... we are on iTunes, Spreaker, & Google Play and have links on our stroke.global page... please subscribe it boosts us in the ratings and helps us rise in the ranks so we can continue these stroke survivor podcasts. As always we want to thank our sponsor TCM Restoration for helping us by making this podcast possible. Check them out online at tcmrestoration.net And thank you again for listening... Please feel free to share this podcast with others, offer your feedback and questions, and follow us online at our website stroke.global or on our Facebook page. Well...this is Rehab Ruthie...hoping you’ll join us tomorrow as we continue in our adventure...
Episode notes: Today Ruth talks about understanding oxalates and what they are and how to be aware of them in our diet.
Ruth is a stroke survivor sharing tips and advice for rehab, recovery and healthy living including nutrition, exercises, personal care, healing and maintaining a grateful attitude. She can be found online at http://stroke.global or onlineRehabilitation.org were she offers help to stroke survivors and caregivers.
Welcome back to the Healthy Life Podcast.... today I want to talk about a real serious but often misunderstood topic of oxalates. Oxalates are naturally occurring in foods and released in the body and must be expelled. There are numerous thoughts and ideas about their function and involvement in:
There has been a rapid panic or often a desire to remove all oxalate containing foods from our diets.... slow down! It’s critical to understand those foods and what is also necessary in the body for proper functioning. Foods that are rich in magnesium and calcium are also necessary. Research has shown you don’t need to remove all oxalates but be wise about food intake and usage. I am going to cut this podcast short so that you have time to watch both YouTube videos that I’ve linked to in the show notes. It’s critical that we work to maintain health and our diet is an integral part of that mission. Well it’s time to close for today...Thanks so much for joining me and remember to visit the stroke.global ( “onlinerehabilitation.org” ) web site often and give us your feedback! I also hope you’ll join me tomorrow... As always it’s an honor and a pleasure sharing with you today.... thank you! I pray that you’ve enjoyed this podcast... we keep it brief so it’s easy to add to your day... we are on iTunes, Spreaker, & Google Play and have links on our stroke.global page... please subscribe it boosts us in the ratings and helps us rise in the ranks so we can continue these stroke survivor podcasts. As always we want to thank our sponsor TCM Restoration for helping us by making this podcast possible. Check them out online at tcmrestoration.net And thank you again for listening... Please feel free to share this podcast with others, offer your feedback and questions, and follow us online at our website stroke.global or on our Facebook page. Well...this is Rehab Ruthie...hoping you’ll join us tomorrow as we continue in our adventure
Episode notes: Today Ruth talks about the ways we need to understand pain and it’s cause. And how we can appropriately deal with pain and then build up and exercise our joints, specifically our wrist joint.
Ruth is a stroke survivor sharing tips and advice for rehab, recovery and healthy living including nutrition, exercises, personal care, healing and maintaining a grateful attitude. She can be found online at http://stroke.global or onlineRehabilitation.org were she offers help to stroke survivors and caregivers.
Welcome back to the Healthy Life Podcast....one of the things we are challenged with as we get older, through normal use, or as an after effect of a brain injury or stroke is that of damage or control and usage problems of joints. Today we’re going to focus on the wrist. I was asked last night by a friend about whether or not I knew how to “unfreeze a joint” in particular the wrist. It’s unfortunately a common problem that occurs from over use in most people and control issues in brain injuries and stroke. One of the biggest challenges is in increasing blood flow to the joint area. This can be best addressed and accomplished in several ways...
We often misinterpret pain and try to decrease it inappropriately. In other words we think pain removal is the goal. I learned as a paramedic that pain is an indicator of something that is happening and needs to be appropriately understood and addressed accordingly. Removal of pain needs to be in conjunction with healing! Not just pain removal for pain removals sake! We often rush to remove the pain and in so doing can actually add to the damage or injury of the joint. When there is pain in an area we need to ask the following:
Most joint pain is due to misuse, nonuse, or injury of a joint and can be addressed through slowly and carefully dealing with building up and healing the joint... strains and sprains and nonuse are actually slower to heal than a break. Joint movements and exercises need to be done slowly, intentionally, and properly. Using low heat to increase mobility, circulation, and internal lubrication needs to be done in conjunction with healing the joint. Exercises must be secondary to that healing. Pain in all reality is our friend and must be understood. Do not think that you need to “push” through it! In this case... slow and steady heals and strengthens. We ask a lot of our bodies and they can serve us well if we are patient and work with them. Anti-inflammatories and pain medications need to be used only under supervision, and in conjunction with exercises to build up and strengthen those joints. There are far too may people who start using strong medication for pain relief only to become addicted to the drug! Some of the simplest wrist/arm exercises I have put together on our web site into a video whose link I’ve included in the show notes. It includes:
Well it’s time to close for today...Thanks so much for joining me and remember to visit the stroke.global ( “onlinerehabilitation.org” ) web site often and give us your feedback! I also hope you’ll join me tomorrow... As always it’s an honor and a pleasure sharing with you today.... thank you! I pray that you’ve enjoyed this podcast... we keep it brief so it’s easy to add to your day... we are on iTunes, Spreaker, & Google Play and have links on our stroke.global page... please subscribe it boosts us in the ratings and helps us rise in the ranks so we can continue these stroke survivor podcasts. As always we want to thank our sponsor TCM Restoration for helping us by making this podcast possible. Check them out online at tcmrestoration.net And thank you again for listening... Please feel free to share this podcast with others, offer your feedback and questions, and follow us online at our website stroke.global or on our Facebook page. Well...this is Rehab Ruthie...hoping you’ll join us tomorrow as we continue in our adventure
Episode notes: Today Ruth talks about the difference between TBI (traumatic brain injury) and stroke... how it’s treated and what can we expect.
Ruth is a stroke survivor sharing tips and advice for rehab, recovery and healthy living including nutrition, exercises, personal care, healing and maintaining a grateful attitude. She can be found online at http://stroke.global or onlineRehabilitation.org were she offers help to stroke survivors and caregivers.
Welcome back to the Healthy Life Podcast...you know when I considered today’s podcast I had to ask myself what is it that people really need to hear. Well, I’ve decided that once a week I will speak on and address our “focus” and what we choose to focus on, think about, is the subject of our conversations, worries, chats.... I am a member to several groups on Facebook so I can effectively listen and help if possible. I monitor them all... looking, watching and listening. I feel if subjects are appropriately answered and don’t need my input then I read and make a mental note of the answer. If I don’t feel it’s been addressed well then I’ll comment. For those that have intermittent but rare days that are bad, upsetting or negative I offer encouragement and understanding... but to those who are constantly and consistently negative I’m afraid I ignore them because they don’t help me and can negatively affect my attitude if I’m not careful. Years ago I read a book... ‘Happiness is a Choice”. It pointed out how we get to choose if we are happy or not, how we respond to our environment... things that have then the potential to affect us, either positively or negatively. So how do you choose? What determines if you are happy? Your physical status,.. your mental status... what? Here’s a more challenging thought question, before your “event”... what affected whether or not you were happy? You know I’ve been a mom for over 30 years now and I’ve always had to put my physical feelings and condition on hold and on the back burner to function and doing the “mom” things first. That meant no matter how I “felt” I had things that I was expected to do. Physically it was often difficult to do or accomplish things but expectations were in place and I had to choose. Because my event (a stroke) caused extensive physical and emotional challenges it was not easy to fulfill my kids expectations. In fact they became my motivation for seeking healing and increasing function. Kids are extremely compassionate and understanding and can handle more than we think possible. While I was seeking answers and healing I found that I was in the process of developing a new level of interaction with my kids. They, knew, saw, and understood the physical limitations but at the same time their expectations for me as a “mom” didn’t waiver. They still needed me to support them, love them, voice my approvals and discuss my disapproval’s... the only real change in expectations was in the physical arena... what I could or could not do physically. I admit the event (stroke) changed me... but I like to think for the better. Sure I had new limitationsæ that went into effect and I was forced to alter a lot of things temporarily but my “focus” remained on others... my kids in particular. Everyday I was and am tempted to focus on self... my condition, my feelings, my shortcomings, my physical state or my challenges... but what is the advantage in that? In reality that selfish focus only exasperates my condition. It places my mind in a negative state, which in turn promotes illness rather than healing. You have a choice to make each day... what will you choose? What will you focus on today? Well it’s time to close for today...Thanks so much for joining me and remember to visit the stroke.global ( “onlinerehabilitation.org” ) web site often and give us your feedback! I also hope you’ll join me tomorrow... As always it’s an honor and a pleasure sharing with you today.... thank you! I pray that you’ve enjoyed this podcast... we keep it brief so it’s easy to add to your day... we are on iTunes, Spreaker, & Google Play and have links on our stroke.global page... please subscribe it boosts us in the ratings and helps us rise in the ranks so we can continue these stroke survivor podcasts. As always we want to thank our sponsor TCM Restoration for helping us by making this podcast possible. Check them out online at tcmrestoration.net And thank you again for listening... Please feel free to share this podcast with others, offer your feedback and questions, and follow us online at our website stroke.global or on our Facebook page. Well...this is Rehab Ruthie...hoping you’ll join us tomorrow as we continue in our adventure!
Episode notes: Today Ruth talks about the difference between TBI (traumatic brain injury) and stroke... how it’s treated and what can we expect.
Ruth is a stroke survivor sharing tips and advice for rehab, recovery and healthy living including nutrition, exercises, personal care, healing and maintaining a grateful attitude. She can be found online at http://stroke.global or onlineRehabilitation.org were she offers help to stroke survivors and caregivers. TCM Restoration TCMRestoration.net
——————————————————————————————————————-- Welcome back to the Healthy Life Podcast...as one who worked in the medical community for decades and saw and dealt with TBI and stroke until suffering my own stroke, I know too well the differences between what we’re told and what we’ve experienced. A TBI (traumatic brain injury) is a nondegenerative, noncongenital insult to the brain from an external mechanical force, possibly leading to permanent or temporary impairment of cognitive, physical, and psychosocial functions, with an associated diminished or altered state of consciousness. The important part of that definition is... insult to the brain from an external mechanical force! TBI and stroke are very similar in there effects and only differences are in the cause of the damage. Now the likelihood of recurrence is dependent upon a number of factors but people who have had a traumatic brain injury face a tenfold increase in the risk of having a stroke within three months, according to a new study. Traumatic brain injury occurs when a blow or jolt to the head causes changes in a person’s normal brain function. Although previous research has shown that traumatic brain injury can be associated with the future development of epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease, and psychiatric conditions, this was the first study to link it to the future risk of stroke. The study appeared in the July 28 online issue of Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association and I’ve provided the link in the show notes. So the facts remain that regardless of the cause the results and effects are the same. The signs and symptoms of TBI vary extensively in severity and combinations of domains impacted, depending on the site and extent of injury to the neural substrate. Examples of physical, sensory, neurobehavioral, cognitive-communication, and swallowing effects of TBI are listed below.
Physical Effects Physical effects resulting from TBI include
Visual effects resulting from TBI include
Auditory and/or vestibular effects of TBI include
Neurobehavioral Effects Neurobehavioral effects resulting from TBI include
Cognition and language are intrinsically and reciprocally related in both development and function. An impairment of language may disrupt one or more cognitive processes, and, similarly, an impairment of one or more cognitive processes may disrupt language. Cognitive-communication effects post-brain injury include difficulty with
Cognitive deficits resulting from TBI include
Along with the typical language comprehension and production deficits associated with co-existing aphasia, individuals with TBI may also present with linguistic deficits in the domains listed below (See aphasia for information related to neurogenic language deficits in adults):
Cognitive control deficits uniquely impact linguistic abilities in bi/multilingual speakers (Ansaldo & Marcotte, 2007), especially in individuals with frontal lobe and subcortical lesions (Price, Green, & von Studnitz, 1999). Difficulty in maintaining output in the target language is strongly influenced by the speaker's premorbid proficiency in the two languages. In addition to the language production errors noted in monolingual speakers, bi/multilingual individuals with acquired brain injury may also demonstrate
Motor Speech Deficits Motor speech deficits of TBI include
Voice deficits resulting from TBI include
Typically, swallowing disorders in TBI are neurogenic in nature, secondary to cortical or subcortical damage, resulting in oral/pharyngeal sensory disorders and/or motor deficits (e.g., weakness or paralysis of oropharyngeal musculature, oral apraxia). Cognitive impairments, such as poor memory, reduced insight, limited attention, impulsivity, and agitation, in TBI survivors may affect swallowing and increase aspiration risk. Well that’s quite a list... does any of that sound similar... it should! The cause of brain injury can be mechanical or environmental but the changes and challenges are the same. All of us saw a rapid change and we all need to heal and fight to become ourselves again. Well it’s time to close for today...Thanks so much for joining me and remember to visit the stroke.global ( “onlinerehabilitation.org” ) web site often and give us your feedback! I also hope you’ll join me Next week... As always it’s an honor and a pleasure sharing with you today.... thank you! I pray that you’ve enjoyed this podcast... we keep it brief so it’s easy to add to your day... we are on iTunes, Spreaker, & Google Play and have links on our stroke.global page... please subscribe it boosts us in the ratings and helps us rise in the ranks so we can continue these stroke survivor podcasts. As always we want to thank our sponsor TCM Restoration for helping us by making this podcast possible. Check them out online at tcmrestoration.net And thank you again for listening... Please feel free to share this podcast with others, offer your feedback and questions, and follow us online at our website stroke.global or on our Facebook page. Well...this is Rehab Ruthie...hoping you’ll join us next week as we continue in our adventure!
Episode notes: Today Ruth talks about the challenges she has seen in medicine, treatment and as a stroke survivor herself.
Ruth is a stroke survivor sharing tips and advice for rehab, recovery and healthy living including nutrition, exercises, personal care, healing and maintaining a grateful attitude. She can be found online at http://stroke.global or onlineRehabilitation.org were she offers help to stroke survivors and caregivers.
Welcome back to the Healthy Life Podcast... ok I’m just going to say it.... never say never... don’t allow yourself to buy in to others ideas of what you can accomplish or not. You set your own goals... you determine your own future. Don’t let someone in a white coat tell you what your future looks like. They don’t know! Something I learned years ago is this... often get caught up asking ourselves the wrong questions and as a result, setting ourselves up for failure. I learned as a mom to always give my kids 3 choices...
Why? To steer them in the direction of learning how to make good choices. So too when it comes to our lives and how the stroke has affected you... you need to learn how to make good, smart, motivating choices and set proper expectations. It is not unrealistic to desire and expect to heal and get e everything back. But I know we are often told to “be content”, allow your physical self to limit your thinking. Hogwash! We need to be open.... seeking our greatest potentials! The key to healing and yes... to living is being realistic in timelines and immediate expectations. Here I will give you a powerful statement “believing is seeing”. We need to exercise faith and an optimistic attitude. Too often we allow our future to be dictated by what we see rather than what we believe. Now don’t confuse optimism with an outward smile that has to be pasted on our face all the time... but optimism is that positive confidence, faith, and trust that exerts control and direction in our future! A few years ago I started working with a paraplegic and I asked him what he wanted... what his expectations were. In typical fashion he smiled and said he love to wake up and walk! Because his injury was from a compression and he had minimal movement I knew that in time with the appropriate tools... he would walk again. It took 3 months but we got him upright, out of his wheelchair with assistance, shifting his feet forward, and taking steps with assist. Then we was supported in a cage that surrounded him and was mounted on wheels. By the end of our session he was well on his way to walking and I saw him 6 months later with leg braces and walking with a walker! Exciting? You bet! And more than he thought realistically possible. The key... never say never! Set your goals high but allow things to be accomplished in a step by step manner. Healing first... restoration second. I was floored when I came to China and was kept in my room, prevented from a gym environment for 1 month! The effect... healing! Who’d thought after 3 years it was even possible. Now their 90 day program is not quite as dramatic but the paces you go through are much slower, healing in nature, and produce positive results at a much faster rate. Too often we push and are then disappointed at little to no results. After all it was just prior to the stroke when all was fine and we functioned just fine. Well guess what... in that moment, that instant... we were changed... dramatically! If we don’t reset our bodies and minds now... in ways we never thought necessary we will not only be depressed and discouraged.... we will fail! We have the opportunity today to put the past in the past and map a new course. The sky is the limit? No we need to reach for the stars! We need to believe and act accordingly. Plan and pray, do... not just dream, sure... pause and prepare but then act! Well it’s time to close for today...Thanks so much for joining me and remember to visit the stroke.global ( “onlinerehabilitation.org” ) web site often and give us your feedback! Because you control your future... you determine what you’ll do and where you’ll go. I also hope you’ll find time to join join me tomorrow... we all need a dose of “I can!”· As always it’s an honor and a pleasure sharing with you today.... thank you! I pray that you’ve enjoyed this podcast... we keep it brief so it’s easy to add to your day... we are on iTunes, Spreaker, & Google Play and have links on our stroke.global page... please subscribe it boosts us in the ratings and helps us rise in the ranks so we can continue these stroke survivor podcasts. As always we want to thank our sponsor TCM Restoration for helping us by making this podcast possible. Check them out online at tcmrestoration.net And thank you again for listening... Please feel free to share this podcast with others, offer your feedback and questions, and follow us online at our website stroke.global or on our Facebook page. Well...this is Rehab Ruthie...hoping you’ll join us tomorrow as we continue in our adventure!
Episode notes: Today Ruth talks about the difference between traditional Chinese medicine and treatment in the USA and China.
Ruth is a stroke survivor sharing tips and advice for rehab, recovery and healthy living including nutrition, exercises, personal care, healing and maintaining a grateful attitude. She can be found online at http://stroke.global or onlineRehabilitation.org were she offers help to stroke survivors and caregivers.
Welcome back to the Healthy Life Podcast...well I thought today I’d address an often held belief head on. China! I understand all the political facts and arguments that are currently going on but this tends to be one of the most asked questions I get. Treatment in China is different than what can be offered in the US. So people ask is that why people go to China for treatment? What is it that is different? Let me begin by asking you a simple question - it happened to be one that one of our clients, a doctor and stroke survivor, asked...”where do you go to find the pyramids? ...Egypt!” He was right! Egypt! Just as you go to Egypt for pyramids so too the best Traditional Chinese Medicine is offered in China! Now, although there are many good acupuncturists in the US the fact remains when it comes to TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) you must go to the source to get the very best. Hence why it’s called TCM. They have been using this medicine in China for over 4000 years quite effectively. Let me ask you another question... "Who do you want treating you?" (How would you answer:)
I hope you would answer "Master" and that's the only level TCM Restoration deals with! Let’s face it.. it would be difficult if you just had to go and find the best.. here they arrange it for you! In the United States it's the AMA that regulates how medicine is practiced and determines what is acceptable. But there is no guarantee that you will have the best doctors... With new government oversight we often don't even get to choose or keep our doctors. It's also the FDA that approves and controls all medications and food supplements. Yes there are good things about that but many bad things too. Don’t get me started.... I could talk for hours on that subject alone! The reality is that the type of TCM available and practiced in the US is limited. The TCM in China is vastly different and the TCM medications that are available in China are very limited in availability in the US and most times in formulations they are required to leave out vital and key ingredients just to get them approved and then imported into the US. I know... many people will tell me they are seeing a Chinese doctor... or one who was trained in China. Question: do we export the very best doctors to practice overseas.... I get it.. I hear you but this same client (the US doctor) researched for months and went to the best facilities and physicians in the U.S. with the same results... none of them provided the results or hope that he received in treatment in China. Just to be clear you control the results of your treatment and they are dependent upon several key things:
Most people get discouraged in their rehab and are told they must be content. Well, the primary reason rehabilitation produces limited results is that it is forced and begun when healing has not. It is why after 3 years of rehabilitation failures I could get healing and restoration. It is a personal question that each of us has to answer for ourselves... what is healing and restoration worth to us? Well it’s time to close for today...Thanks so much for joining me and remember to visit the stroke.global ( “onlinerehabilitation.org” ) web site often and give us your feedback! I also hope you’ll join me tomorrow... As always it’s an honor and a pleasure sharing with you today.... thank you! I pray that you’ve enjoyed this podcast... we keep it brief so it’s easy to add to your day... we are on iTunes, Spreaker, & Google Play and have links on our stroke.global page... please subscribe it boosts us in the ratings and helps us rise in the ranks so we can continue these stroke survivor podcasts. As always we want to thank our sponsor TCM Restoration for helping us by making this podcast possible. Check them out online at tcmrestoration.net And thank you again for listening... Please feel free to share this podcast with others, offer your feedback and questions, and follow us online at our website stroke.global or on our Facebook page. Well...this is Rehab Ruthie...hoping you’ll join us tomorrow as we continue in our adventure!
Episode notes: Today Ruth talks about the between an MRI’s, MRA’s and CT Scans. It is important to know what is best for each area of expertise.
Ruth is a stroke survivor sharing tips and advice for rehab, recovery and healthy living including nutrition, exercises, personal care, healing and maintaining a grateful attitude. She can be found online at http://stroke.global or onlineRehabilitation.org were she offers help to stroke survivors and caregivers.
Welcome back to the Healthy Life Podcast...today we’re going to talk about the difference between a CT Scan, an MRI and an MRA. Trust me you need to understand the difference because many times tests are ordered because they can be and not that they will provide any benefit. I saw a post recently and felt that I could not easily respond to it in a few words so this is your crash course on radiography tests... So what is the difference between an MRI’s MRA’s and CT Scan machines... well a CT scanner passes X-rays through the patient’s body as it moves through an arch, clicking various pictures through every angle. As a result a CT scan can diagnose different levels of density and tissues inside a solid organ, and can also provide detailed information about the body, which includes the head, brain, eyes, inner ear, sinuses, chest, neck, shoulders, spine, pelvis, hips, reproductive systems, bladder and gastrointestinal tract. Just to let you know an advanced CT scan focuses more on the patients comfort, shorter scanning times, and higher resolution images. MRI scans generally depend on powerful magnetic fields and radio frequency pulses for producing detailed pictures of organs, soft tissues, bone and other internal body structures. So an MRI image is capable of producing clearer pictures of normal and abnormal tissues. A CT Scan is thought to be better than an MRI because:
MRI’S are thought better than CT scans for these reasons:
For immediate diagnosis of stroke the CT Scan is most helpful but long term diagnosis should use something called an MRA. An MRA, or magnetic resonance angiogram, is a type of MRI scan that uses MRI's magnetic fields and radio waves to produce pictures of blood vessels inside the body, allowing doctors to locate problems that may cause reduced blood flow. An MRI, or magnetic resonance imaging, is the technology behind an MRA, and it is used to examine soft ligament tissues and tendon injuries. Both scans are generally safe for most patients and do not expose them to ionizing radiation. Because MRA scans look at the body's blood vessels, they are well suited to examining arteries in the brain, neck, chest, and abdomen and stomach. MRA scans are typically used for the following reasons:
I hope this helps you in understanding the difference between CT Scans, MRI’s and MRA’s. If you have questions you can talk with your doctor but hopefully this will give you a better foundation to have that discussion. Well it’s time to close for today...Thanks so much for joining me and remember to visit the stroke.global ( “onlinerehabilitation.org” ) web site often and give us your feedback! I also hope you’ll join me tomorrow... As always it’s an honor and a pleasure sharing with you today.... thank you! I pray that you’ve enjoyed this podcast... we keep it brief so it’s easy to add to your day... we are on iTunes, Spreaker, & Google Play and have links on our stroke.global page... please subscribe it boosts us in the ratings and helps us rise in the ranks so we can continue these stroke survivor podcasts. As always we want to thank our sponsor TCM Restoration for helping us by making this podcast possible. Check them out online at tcmrestoration.net And thank you again for listening... Please feel free to share this podcast with others, offer your feedback and questions, and follow us online at our website stroke.global or on our Facebook page. Well...this is Rehab Ruthie...hoping you’ll join us tomorrow as we continue in our adventure!
Episode notes: Today Ruth talks about the challenge that we often have with breath control and aphasia and stroke.
Ruth is a stroke survivor sharing tips and advice for rehab, recovery and healthy living including nutrition, exercises, personal care, healing and maintaining a grateful attitude. She can be found online at http://stroke.global were she offers help to stroke survivors and caregivers.
Welcome back to the Healthy Life Podcast... as someone who suffered a severe stroke, battled with breathing issues, aphasia, and speaking problems I thought I’d give you a little if not a lot of hope. The stroke can cause many issues that can create and/or multiply other health issues. Many times in order to reduce blood pressure issues, physicians can go a little over board and not realize or pay attention to things that they are putting into a state of imbalance. My doctor was well meaning but had me on a combination of drugs that lowered my BP and made it appear that I was doing great. But in so doing he created a fluid imbalance and dehydrated me to a point I dropped 40 lbs of water weight in 2 weeks and became so severely dehydrated that I required eye drops, needed moisture swabs and salve for my lips, was unable to utter anything but raspy sounds, drank incessantly yet still suffered from severe constipation, bordering on an intestinal compaction and blockage. As a result I will be the first to state that “Stroke” needs to be evaluated and treated carefully, taking in to account the function of the entire body. It took months to become rehydrated and stabilized from that inappropriate treatment. Had I been more aware of my medical situation and been more mentally capable I would have argued sooner. The fact is that most people take the advice of the physician assigned to them and don’t argue or question treatments or medications. My husband did just that! It was weeks before I was aware enough and could get my concerns conveyed to the nursing staff that things began to change. As I said earlier in a past podcast I signed myself out and re-assessed my medications with my general practitioner who knew me better. Please keep in mind that lab tests taken in the hospital or clinic are simply pictures in time and they can change and vary with a variety and numbers of factors and need to be treated cautiously. One other thing that you should be aware of is that the spoken word and singing are managed in different areas of the brain and often one is effected leaving the other area untouched or unaffected. Now breathing and breath are critical and after suffering a severe stroke it can be greatly affected leaving you short of breath.... Breathing or attempting to speak incorrectly. When I was young I had about 10 years of professional singing instruction and as a result use many of the vocal exercises and techniques to overcome speaking and breathing issues. Some of the techniques are:
Well it’s time to close for today...Thanks so much for joining me and remember to visit the stroke.global ( “onlinerehabilitation.org” ) web site often and give us your feedback! I also hope you’ll join me tomorrow... As always it’s an honor and a pleasure sharing with you today.... thank you! I pray that you’ve enjoyed this podcast... we keep it brief so it’s easy to add to your day... we are on iTunes, Spreaker, & Google Play and have links on our stroke.global page... please subscribe it boosts us in the ratings and helps us rise in the ranks so we can continue these stroke survivor podcasts. As always we want to thank our sponsor TCM Restoration for helping us by making this podcast possible. Check them out online at tcmrestoration.net And thank you again for listening... Please feel free to share this podcast with others, offer your feedback and questions, and follow us online at our website stroke.global or on our Facebook page. Well...this is Rehab Ruthie...hoping you’ll join us tomorrow as we continue in our adventure. |
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