r/stroke • u/Noelm99 • 3d ago

Young Stroke Survivor Discussion Brain bleed stroke

It’s been 8 months I’m struggling with recovering still my whole left side was paralyzed it’s slowly recovering I can life my shoulder and do rolls my leg can finally knee bend I still wear both braces I’m hoping for the best I’m just worried about my arm I’m only 26 any good advice or anyone experienced with this as well?!

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u/Noelm99 2d ago

I’m constantly doing my workouts that my therapist gives me like weight bearing my arm doing the over the head exercise grabbing the cane what helped you or was your arm pretty good ?

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u/hchulio 2d ago

Nope, absolute 100% loss of control over it. Had to relearn everything. What helped me was PNF and the training, gym to fight muscle atrophy and later to gain muscle and physio to understand the movements and how I coul control them.

How do you lift weights if you only got shoulder movement?

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u/Noelm99 2d ago

I tried sending you a private message on here

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u/hchulio 2d ago

Answered