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ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery

2 days ago

If you have upper limb difficulties, this is the video that will be your ally. Here, Dr Tom shows you how you, too, can get as excellent function back in your upper limb as he has. He shows you what he did to gain function and shows tools that he has built to help survivors train their reach, grasp and release. He then shows you exactly how to make or acquire what you need to do what many hundreds of people have used to significantly (and very quickly) to reduce spasticity and flaccidity – and to gain control again of your more-affected hand.
Available via online streaming means you don't have to wait to get started!
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ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery

2 days ago

Task-specific practice is the ‘number one’ way to retrain the brain. It means simply to train the action to be performed in a natural environment. For example, if you wanted to lift a mug and drink from it, you should take a mug and practice lifting and drinking from it, over and over again … and attempt to improve progressively and consistently.
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ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery

2 days ago

Just walking!
Do what you can. It’s amazing the amount of people who we see coming to training who have been left by therapists in an adequate state, yet who have simply regressed when left to their own devices. Many are wheeled about in wheelchairs when there is no reason for these devices to be used except to save time when getting from A to B. I understand completely how this happens, and have great sympathy. As we have said, life is to be lived. The problem is that paradoxically you will probably end up living less in real terms! The struggle to walk counts. Each step counts. (You know this already though.)
From The Successful Stroke Survivor book by Tom Balchin
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ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery

3 days ago

Do you, or someone you know, want to become an ARNI Trainer? Cohort 2 of 2026 ARNI Instructor training starts on September 19, 2026 (remote or hybrid).

APPLY NOW!
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ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery

3 days ago

Often stroke survivors, even very young ones, report using a stick to highlight to the public that they are currently disabled and to ensure that they never fall over.

This is sound thinking. But in the case of one-sided weakness, less weight is placed through the affected leg as the stick is held in the good hand. Accordingly, ability to balance properly and walk again without a stick can suffer the longer you use one to help you get about. This is not a license for you to get rid of your stick immediately, if you are using one. But it is a suggestion, please, to try and minimise its use perhaps to situations outside of the house.

If you feel you need some help with your walking call us on 0203 053 0111 or email support@arni.uk.com

We have trainers throughout the country who can help you with your recovery.
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ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery

3 days ago

Upper body movement is all about recovery of reaching (which you perform mainly with your shoulder and elbow joints) and grasping/releasing (which you do mainly with your wrist, finger and thumb joints).
Call us on 0203 053 0111 if you want to find out if there's a trainer near you who can help with your recovery; or email support@arni.uk.com
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ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery

4 days ago

This training diary is an essential part of training: no serious stroke survivor who is training with an ARNI Associate can do without these. Order one to start with and you’ll see what we mean.

Designed by Tom Balchin, the way to fill these in is detailed in the Successful Stroke Survivor, and there is a full explanation at the front. Training and the recording of training are equally as important.
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ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery

4 days ago

Electrodes in the neck, plus intensive rehab – could this be the best arm stroke recovery combination? 🧠🖐️ A University of Pittsburgh study is now enrolling participants to test pairing cervical epidural spinal cord stimulation with high-dose, high-intensity neurotherapy from MindMaze.

It builds on Pittsburgh's own research, published in Nature Medicine, which showed that stimulating the spinal cord at the neck can improve arm and hand movement in people with chronic stroke after only a few hours of training. But those gains were largely assistive – present while the stimulation was switched on, and gone when it wasn't.

So the new study asks the next question: how much lasting recovery is possible if you deliver that same stimulation alongside serious volumes of therapy? The logic rests on how the nervous system relearns movement; the stimulation creates activity in the spinal cord, your own intent to move pairs with it, and together they strengthen the weakened connections driving the muscles.

What the study wants to know is whether doing that thousands of times over, rather than for a few hours, produces change that lasts once the stimulator is off. Interesting eh? It should do...

MindMaze's platform combines FDA-cleared wearable sensors, motion tracking and AI-driven software to deliver that intensity of active, intent-driven practice without adding to the clinical staffing burden.

The study (NCT07153536) enrols 20 adults with chronic upper limb weakness; participants first complete six weeks of training, then have the stimulation system implanted and repeat the same training with stimulation active throughout, followed for up to six months to see what's retained.

As you know, (potential) recovery after stroke depends largely on (rehab) dosage and intensity. And this study puts that principle at the centre of the design. It's US-based and early at the moment, with only 20 participants, so we'll be watching what the six-month follo#ARNIstrokerehabw#strokerecoveryR#UpperLimbRehabS#spinalcordstimulationm#StrokeResearchordStimulation #StrokeResearch
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ARNI Stroke Rehab & Recovery

4 days ago

Do bear in mind Arni has a range of videos available that will guide and assist you with your recovery. Available via online streaming means you can access them from anywhere.

Have you tried them? what did you think????
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