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Five Tips For Pacientes after a Acidente Vascular Cerebral - Acidente Vascular Cerebral Center

Take Care of Yourself

First of all, you need to take care of yourself, such as spending time exercising, eating healthy, enjoying hobbies and leisure activities.

Seek apoiar from family and friends, and actively ask them for ajudar when you need it.


Trabalho with Your Loved One to Regain Movimento

Properly positioning braços and pernas is important, also, to prevent muscles near the joints from tightening. Fornecer apoiar for a limp braço and gently straighten curling fingers. Keep the person’s pés flat on the floor or on a footrest. Good posture is extremely important for someone with weakness on — or who is lacking awareness of — one side of the body.


Strengthen Muscles

Perform simple stretching exercises as recommended by your physical therapist to ajudar relax the muscles of your braços and pernas, and slowly increase your strength and range of movimento. Set yourself goals for getting up, sitting down, and eventually standing. You pode also exercise some fine motor skills, such as putting food in your mouth with your mãos or brushing your teeth.


Slowly exercise standing and walking

You may only be able to stand up briefly at first. Gradually you pode hold the parallel bars, lean on the counter or usar a walker or crutches to stand for a longer time, and finally walk. After a little effect, you pode ask for a special treadmill or other equipment that ajuda walking for exercise.


Promote Everyday Self-Care

● Test the water temperature for a bath or shower with a mão or pé that was not affected by the acidente vascular cerebral.

● Usar grab bars, a shower seat, a mão-held shower, and a long-handled brush.

● Dress while sitting, starting with the affected side or membro.

● Wear shirts with snaps or Velcro closures. Usar zippers with loops attached to them. Sweat pants or skirts with elastic waistbands also fazer it easier to dress.