Simple. Brain. Recovery. Game.

Stroke recovery involves neuroplasticity. You can slice it and you can dice it but the bottom line always comes back to stroke as brain injury -- and how to overcome it. If you can't get the brain to reorganize around the injury, recovery is toast.

• Spasticity: caused by brain damage.

• Inability to feel the movement: caused by brain damage.

• Unilateral neglect (decreased attention to the “bad” side): caused by brain damage.

• Lack of control over the affected arm and leg: caused by brain damage.

• Aphasia: caused by brain damage

• Vision problems: caused by brain damage

• And much more!: caused by brain damage

So the answer to the question “… how might movement problems be overcome?” is simple: Rewire your brain.

And it is good that it is simple because only the stroke survivor can do it. A therapist could have a double major physical and occupational therapist PhD from Harvard school of Super Duper Rehab summa cum laude with postdoctoral training as a Rhodes Scholar and they still can't do it for you. You know the old Smokey the Bear poster: "Only you can prevent forest fires"? For stroke survivors the poster should say: "Only you can drive neuroplastic change". Fortunately, the rules for rewiring your brain are very, very simple. Unfortunately, rewiring takes a tremendous amount of hard work.

And what does it take? Repetitive practice.

Repetitive practice is boring.
So try spicing up with a video game yay!

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