Chapter 2: Innovations At Home

THE TAKEAWAY

These are the big five meaningful practice moments from this chapter:

1.       Average ability and the 10,000 hours rule of meaningful practice will make you an expert in any area of life. This principle can and should also be applied to stroke rehabilitation.

2.       To facilitate rehabilitation success, you and the stroke survivor need to understand and become knowledgeable about the importance of SMART:

• Self-belief

• Measurements

• Active priming

• Rewiring

• Ten thousand

3.       Hard work and meaningful repetition are the secrets to success in certain tasks, and the good news is that rehabilitation is one of those tasks.

4.       A stroke survivor may know instinctively what they should do to assist recovery, but traditional rules won’t allow them to go ahead with these ideas. This book will give you the confidence to allow your stroke survivor to take control of their rehabilitation.

5.       As a caregiver, you will be worried that lots of exercises for your stroke survivor will risk a repeat stroke. Please do not worry about this.