Thursday, 27 August 2009

Tapping her toes

Jo discovered she can tap her toes on the left foot today. That might not sound like much to you or me but is the beginning of the 4th stage of Brunnstrom’s Seven stages of Rehabilitation, where movement patterns are not dictated solely by limb synergies.

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Different strokes...

It has been nearly seven years since Jo suffered a "controlled" stroke whilst undergoing brain surgery to clip the blood vessel that had caused a subarachnoid haemorrhage in 2000. Sadly two successive coilings did not occlude the bleed and so Jo had a craniotomy in August 2008. During surgery the surgeon discovered the coiling had penetrated the rear of the aneurysm, occasioning emergency repair procedures. Consequentially they spent one and a half hours longer in surgery than expected, leading to the right half of Jo's brain forgetting it has to look after the left side of her world.