Stroke Complete Exercise Guide: Your Complete Exercise Guide (book)

Overcome stroke with a safe and sensible fitness program

DESCRIPTION

Every year nearly half a million people in the U.S. have strokes. Through increased awareness of the shared risk factors of stroke and heart disease, better medical treatment, and use of exercise and other lifestyle factors as preventive medicine, 62% will survive. But in the most critical stage of recovery--when formal physical, speech, and occupational therapy have been completed--stroke patients have lacked the information needed to continue to improve their condition and maintain the progress they've made.

Stroke: Your Complete Exercise Guide provides a safe and sensible exercise program designed to pick up where formal therapy leaves off. Stroke patients with slight to moderate disability can use the exercise program in this book to help them continue their recovery, improve fitness, optimize functional capacity, and prevent further strokes.

People recovering from strokes and professionals who work with them will find this book invaluable. Stroke: Your Complete Exercise Guide explains what exercises and activities are most beneficial for increasing flexibility, strength, and aerobic fitness for stroke patients.

* a clear explanation of what a stroke is and how the brain recovers from a stroke,

* essentials on tailoring an effective exercise program to fit their capabilities,

* four complete exercise programs (for walking, stationary cycling, jogging, and the Schwinn Air-Dyne), and

* a unique Health Points System to help them maintain motivation and gauge their progress.

The Health Points System helps readers monitor their long-term exercise progress. Points are received for levels of exercise and workout intensities as shown on the Health Points Chart. Exercisers then tally their points each week to determine the effectiveness of their efforts. This unique system keeps readers involved in their recovery, maintains the motivation to exercise, and minimizes the risk of injury.

There is a Health Points Chart for each of the four exercise programs described in the book. A chart for many additional aerobic exercise activities is provided to add variety to the exercise routines.

The book also includes the Rankin Stroke Disability Scale for determining the patient's phase of recovery, a description of a pre-exercise medical exam, and information on monitoring heart rate during exercise.

Stroke: Your Complete Exercise Guide offers a safe and effective exercise program that will set patients on a lifelong course of improved health and fitness and reduced risk of future strokes.

This book is part of The Cooper Clinic and Research Institute Fitness Series--the first series to provide an exercise rehabilitation alternative for people with chronic medical conditions. Other topics in the series include diabetes, chronic fatigue, breathing disorders, and arthritis.

AUDIENCE

Reference for stroke patients and the professionals who care for them.

CONTENTS

Foreword
About the Author
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Moving Beyond the Disability of a Stroke
* Case History of Roger Knight
* Ko Green: Comeback-of-the-Year Award Winner
* What Is a Stroke?
* Neurological Impairment and the Three Phases of Stroke
Recovery

Chapter 2. The Benefits and Risks of Exercise for Stroke Recovery and Prevention

Chapter 4. The Health Points System: Insuring Maximum Health Benefits With Minimum Risk

Chapter 5. Staying Within the Safe-Exercise Zone: Essential Exercise Guidelines for Stroke Survivors

Appendix B. Tests and Procedures Included in a Thorough Pre-Exercise Medical Exam for Stroke Survivors

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Neil F. Gordon is widely regarded as a leading medical authority on exercise and health. Before receiving his master's degree in public health from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1989, Dr. Gordon received doctoral degrees in exercise physiology and medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He also served as medical director of cardiac rehabilitation and exercise physiology for 6 years at I Military Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa.

Since 1987, Dr. Gordon has been the director of exercise physiology at the internationally renowned Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research in Dallas, Texas. He has written over 50 papers related to exercise and medicine. Dr. Gordon is also coauthor of the book Don't Count Yourself Out: Staying Fit after Thirty-Five with Jimmy Connors.

Dr. Gordon is a member of the American Heart Association and American Diabetes Association. He is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR). He also has served on the boards of directors for AACVPR, the Texas Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation, and the American Heart Association (Dallas affiliate).

WORDS OF PRAISE

"A vital resource for stroke survivors."
Gary R. Houser,

Vice President, National Stroke Association

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