Exercises for Stroke Recovery

Exercises you can do at home to help with stroke recovery and rehabilitation.
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Range of Motion Exercises for Spinal Cord Injuries
While seated, cross one foot over your other leg. Using your hand, move the foot through its full range of motion, and then move each toe up and down.
Range of Motion Exercises for Spinal Cord Injuries
Sit facing a chair, bed, or other stable object that is the same height as your wheelchair. Place one leg on the object, keeping your knee straight. Do not bend forward as it will stretch your leg too much. Simply hold the position, alternating legs.
Range of Motion Exercises for Spinal Cord Injuries
While seated or lying down, hold onto your leg underneath the knee and pull your leg toward your chest, keeping your knee bent.
Range of Motion Exercises for Spinal Cord Injuries
Lie on your back with your palms turned up and arms extended straight out to your sides. Hold the positions as long as is comfortable.
Range of Motion Exercises for Spinal Cord Injuries
Bring your chin slowly in toward your chest. Hold, and then return your head upright. Next, keeping your chin tucked in, slowly pull it back, gently stretching the muscles in the back of your neck. Some patients should not do this exercise, so check with your therapist first. If your neck needs more support, you can hold onto it with your hands.
Range of Motion Exercises for Spinal Cord Injuries
Stabilize the patient’s foot just below the toes with one hand. With the other, grasp their toes and slowly move them forward and backward.
Range of Motion Exercises for Spinal Cord Injuries
With the patient’s knee straight, stabilize the ankle with one hand and place the other around the foot. Slowly turn the foot inward and outward.