I have a few questions for any DUers who help with the rehab of stroke victims... [View all]

[TheDebbieDee]

I'm not a stroke victim, I'm not a rehab therapist and I don't know any stroke victims. I'm just trying to accumulate some information and I'm hoping that out of the several hundred thousand members of DU, a few of you are employed or have some expertise in the rehabilitation of stroke victims. I hope you will share your knowledge with me...

1] Is it common knowledge with those in the physical rehab industry that similar functions (like speech and singing) can be carried out by different parts of the brain?

2] Is it a common practice to try to teach stoke victims to sing when it is found that they are no longer able to speak or to dance when it is found that they are no longer able to walk?

3] For a patient who may be aphasic, is it common practice to try to sing instructions to a stroke patient as opposed to speaking them?

I know nothing about strokes or stroke rehab but I have come across a few articles about the progress some stroke victims have made when using these outside-the-box methods and I wondered how common it was, in 2017, to use some of these alternative methods.

Or maybe if these alternative therapy methods are now commonplace, I would like to know that they are and for how many years these alternative therapy methods have been in use. Thanks in advance for sharing your knowledge with me...

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