Need as much feed back as possible please
I am posting on my blog because i want as many people to see and give feedback as possible, figured more would see it here than in the forum page. I know I can't judge Mikes progress by the progress of another stroke survivor but maybe it will help me understand just where we are in this.
Last night I was doing his exercises and I noticed that he has quite a bit of movement in his foot and toes. He can pull his leg up and hold it in position with his knee bent, it doesn't fall to the side anymore. He can wiggle his toes and pull his foot up level with his ankle. The problem he does have is that he tires really fast and cant do it more than four or five times. I think he just needs to build up his muscles in his leg.
Now for the arm and hand, Lying down he can stretch his arm out straight and bring it back to his chest with no problem. I even made him scratch his ear on the opposite side of his head! LOL! He did that pretty easily. His hand has gotten a good bit of strength in it but he can only open it about 3/4 of its full extension.
His stroke was 8 months ago and I was wondering what your opinion of his progress is. Does it sound ok, good, great or excellent?
Thanks everyone for helping me with this.
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