#040 Exercises for Post-Stroke Shoulder Pain

#040 Exercises for Post-Stroke Shoulder Pain


#040 Exercises for Post-Stroke Shoulder Pain

In this Doctor Andrea Furlan demonstrates 24 exercises for treatment of hemiplegia and shoulder pain caused by stroke. She shows range of motion, strengthening, stretching and relaxation exercises.

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00:00 Introduction
07:23 Exercise 1
09:30 Exercise 2
12:25 Exercise 3
13:42 Exercise 4
15:17 Exercise 5
16:25 Exercise 6
17:34 Exercise 7
18:12 Exercise 8
18:48 Exercise 9
19:20 Exercise 10
20:37 Exercise 11
22:35 Exercise 12
23:28 Exercise 13
25:02 Exercise 14
26:12 Exercise 15
27:16 Exercise 16
28:17 Exercise 17
29:25 Exercise 18
30:40 Exercise 19
31:58 Exercise 20
32:56 Exercise 21
33:52 Exercise 22
35:23 Exercise 23
36:33 Exercise 24

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ALERT: This video is not intended to replace medical
advice. If you think you have a condition that is
causing you pain, please consult with your doctor
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Content

1.28 -> stroke is very common according to the world  stroke organization one in four adults will have a  
7.52 -> stroke in their lifetime there are over 13 million  new strokes every year globally fortunately the  
14.32 -> majority of people will survive however many  people will remain with some sort of disability  
20.48 -> rehabilitation post stroke is very important and  it involves a team of doctors like me physiatrists  
26.64 -> and a team of physiotherapists occupational  therapists speech and language pathologists  
31.36 -> psychologists and social workers one of the common  consequences of stroke that i see in my pain  
36.96 -> clinic is shoulder pain today i will demonstrate  24 exercises that people who had a stroke can do  
45.2 -> at home to improve muscle weakness stiffness and  shoulder pain so let's talk about stroke shoulder
53.28 -> today
62.08 -> first let me talk to you about the 10 principles  of exercises for stroke number one movement is the  
70.08 -> best thing to boost your recovery your confidence  and your well-being there is no medication device  
77.68 -> surgery or cure for stroke exercises to the best  modality that we have to help the brain to recover  
84.96 -> from a stroke number two moving also reduces  your risk of having another stroke it reduces the  
92.96 -> clogging up of your arteries it lowers your blood  pressure it stabilizes the blood sugars reduces  
100.4 -> cholesterol and if you make changes in your diet  exercise will also help you to reduce your weight  
107.28 -> number three you must practice some sort of  exercise every day seven days a week for at  
114.32 -> least one hour every day to see some benefits for  a stroke there is a window of opportunity within  
121.28 -> two years after the stroke that your brain is  reorganizing and making new connections we call  
127.28 -> this neuroplasticity it doesn't mean that you  cannot do exercises after two years you can and  
134.64 -> you should but the improvements after two years  will be slower and it will take longer for you to  
140.88 -> notice the benefits but don't give up there can be  brain reorganization after two years number four  
150.4 -> for each exercise you need to do a mental practice  before you start the exercise remember you're not  
158.32 -> just exercising the arm or the hinge or the elbow  you're making neuronal connections in your brain  
166.16 -> mental exercises mental practices  involves rehearsing the task mentally  
172.88 -> in your head do a mental visualization of all  the movements you would do for the next exercise  
179.92 -> and after you have seen them in your  mind then you start doing the exercise  
186.4 -> number five keep an eye on the  movements that you are doing  
190.96 -> when you are doing these movements keep looking at  your affected hinge the images of your arm moving  
197.92 -> will help the brain to make those connections your  brain will receive information from your eyes your  
204.48 -> joints and your muscles all this will tell the  brain to make a new connection a new synopsis  
212.8 -> number six bilateral arm training the same  activity is done with both arms simultaneously  
220.8 -> this is important for three reasons first  the good arm will be your physical therapist  
227.44 -> and the second thing is that the left brain  communicates with the right brain so if the  
233.52 -> good arm is moving there will be a message in your  brain going from side to side telling the affected  
239.52 -> side to move it's almost like a mirror therapy  the affected side of the brain will see how  
246.48 -> the healthy side of the brain is working and it  will imitate what is happening on the other side  
253.36 -> number seven task specific training is better than  just repetitive activity so if you can find some  
260.88 -> activity that is meaningful to you and you can do  regularly that is better than just repeating these  
266.8 -> movements without a task in mind i'll give  some examples when i show you the exercises  
273.68 -> number eight start slow and goals low don't try  to achieve too much when you are starting the  
281.04 -> most important thing is that each day you can do a  little bit more than the day before so i recommend  
287.36 -> you to keep a notebook and take notes of your  progress how many repetitions you can do today for  
293.76 -> exercise number one for example and then maybe you  take notes four repetitions today maybe then your  
300.08 -> goal for tomorrow is to do five repetitions of  that exercise and then start increasing gradually  
307.6 -> number nine about 80 of individuals with paralysis  of the arm will experience some shoulder pain pain  
315.52 -> can be caused by a subluxation rigid muscles  frozen shoulder immobility or repeated trauma  
324.08 -> exercises help to reduce pain in the affected arm  shoulder pain is usually caused by a weakness in  
330.64 -> the muscles around the shoulder and sometimes  the muscles get rigid we call this a specificity  
336.88 -> and it's hard to move keep in mind that these  exercises should not cause pain if you do any  
344.24 -> of these exercises and your shoulder hurts it's  a sign from your body that you are overdoing it  
351.36 -> and number 10 talk to your physical  therapist or your occupational therapist  
356.64 -> or your rehabilitation physician they can  give you some specific advices for your case  
362.8 -> each person is different and it depends on the  type of stroke and how much your arm is affected  
370.32 -> i'll show you some exercise to improve  range of motion to strengthen the muscles  
375.2 -> to stretch the muscles and to relax but  this video is only for educational purposes  
381.44 -> it's not intended to give you individual advice  if you need advice please talk to your doctor  
386.8 -> and if there is any emergency please  go to the nearest emergency department  
392.8 -> here is a list of what you need to do  these exercises a chair a table or a desk  
400.64 -> a cane or some sort of a long stick a piece  of fabric if you don't have a good grip to  
406.72 -> hold the cane a towel a hard pillow an elastic  binge a carpet or a mat to lie on the ground  
416.88 -> if you go to the description of this video below  you will find a summary of dispositions and  
422.32 -> exercises that you can download and print to do at  home just find a button down that says show more  
431.12 -> i have also included time stamps on this  video so you can scroll up and down and  
437.36 -> find the exercises you are looking for in the  timeline this is a range of motion exercise  
445.76 -> and one hand is going to help the other  hinge so with the unaffected hinge  
452.24 -> you're going to grab the other hinge  and you're going to do movements  
460.24 -> the good hinge helping the affected  hinge try to keep your elbows straight  
466.96 -> if you can come just to the level of your nose  that's okay and keep going down and up to here  
477.76 -> however if you can go above your head without  causing any pain any discomfort keep going  
485.68 -> the further you go back is better without  causing any pain or discomfort in your affected  
494 -> shoulder ideally you should be able to go  all the way up behind your head and come back  
503.6 -> the important thing is that your affected arm will  start working with the good warm arm it's not just  
511.92 -> a good arm doing the movement and grabbing your  other arm but both working together see if there  
518.72 -> is any movement and try to look at your hinge so  look at your hinge when it's passing in front of  
525.28 -> your face keep looking at it remember you are  training your brain to make new connections  
535.28 -> and you may do many repetitions of this  exercise until you start getting fatigued  
541.92 -> so if this is about four repetitions that's all  you can do that's fine the important thing is that  
549.44 -> then tomorrow you may try to increase to five  
553.04 -> and then six and seven ideally you should be  doing all this range of motion about 20 times  
564.08 -> and you need to repeat this every day seven  days a week so this exercise is very similar  
571.28 -> to the previous one but we are going to do  indeed diagonal and so you're going to grab  
577.92 -> the same thing both of your hands together  and you're going to go from the right hip  
585.92 -> to the left side of your head so diagonally  this is very important both elbows stretch  
597.12 -> and you're doing this diagonally your head  should be relaxed on the ground and when your  
605.04 -> hinge passes in front of your face make sure  that you look at your hinge you are seeing it  
612 -> and feeling it elbows straight and you do  this as many as you can and you get fatigued  
621.44 -> ideally 20 and then you do for the other side so  grab your hands together here elbows are straight  
629.6 -> and now you're going to do to the other side  
633.28 -> and look at the hinge when it passes in front of  your face and go go go go all the way stretching  
645.28 -> and doing range of motion of the shoulder so  one hand is helping the other one the good hand  
653.2 -> is being the physiotherapist for the badge hinge  for the bad shoulder so keep doing this movement
665.2 -> so there is a modified version of this  exercise if you have an elastic band like this  
672.32 -> and if your affected hinge can grab  the elastic bend then you can use this  
679.76 -> so both hands here together and what  you're going to do is you're going to keep  
685.04 -> one hand close to the hip and the  other one will go in the diagonal
691.68 -> and all the way down and come here to the  diagonal all the way touching the floor there  
701.84 -> do for the other side as well so this one keeps  here on the side of your hip and this one goes  
709.68 -> all the way and touch the forehead so this is  straight elbow this is strengthening the muscles  
719.36 -> but also its range of motion for the  shoulder we are opening the shoulder  
724.72 -> opening the axilla which is very important  because people who have stroke they usually  
731.36 -> have the muscles pulling the shoulder towards the  trunk so it's important to open the arm like this
742.96 -> if you do have a cane then you can  do some exercises for the shoulder  
748.24 -> using the cane so if you have a good grip of  the the hinge here you're going to hold let's  
758 -> say that this is the affected hinge and with  this one you're going to grip hold here and  
764.24 -> what you're going to do is with the good arm it's  going to help the affected arm to move all the way  
775.04 -> up and again if this causes pain you should  not be doing it and you can go from here  
785.36 -> and some people can only come to the  level of the nose and come back here  
794.72 -> and come back and again do this as many  repetitions and cheer your muscles get fatigued  
802.56 -> and in the beginning it's going to be a few  repetitions you'll not be able to do too many  
807.68 -> but as you practice this every  day you're going to get stronger  
811.92 -> and then each day you can increase the  repetitions and you can do 20 of those
820.48 -> so this exercise is similar to the previous one  
823.6 -> but now we are going to do side  to side and what happens is  
827.84 -> when the person doesn't have a good grip on the  affected hinge you can use a piece of fabric  
835.6 -> to attach the hand this is a scarf that i have  and you can just go around and hold the hinge here
847.52 -> to help the hinge not to escape here from the  grip okay so the exercise is similar to the one  
856 -> we did before but now we're going to go  side to side so you see the good hinge  
863.28 -> is now pulling the affected hinge and pushing the  affected hinge here so go all the way to the floor  
874.64 -> up look at your hinge when it's moving  your eyes should be following your hinge  
883.04 -> and you do this movement using the  right arm to guide your affected arm  
890.64 -> and again do as many repetitions as you can and  you can use i think this is better you can use  
898.56 -> like four or five and then start increasing every  day don't forget the elbow has to be straight  
907.12 -> and your eyes should be  following your affected change
915.04 -> so this exercise is for the elbow flexion  and extension it's important that you grab  
923.84 -> a towel and you put under your elbow here and the  other important thing is that your shoulder elbow  
932 -> and hinge is aligned so don't bring your hand  towards your belly because this is a movement  
940.96 -> that people with stroke usually they keep the  hinge the the shoulder closed like this and the  
948.88 -> hinge on the belly we need to do the opposite  we need to open the arm so for this exercise so  
957.36 -> you put the towel under the arm here and then  you're going to binge and stretch the elbow  
969.04 -> and do this as many repetitions you can ideally  doing twenty every day in the affected side
984.16 -> so this is an exercise for weight bearing on  the shoulder very important because weight  
990.8 -> bearing on the shoulder will help to strengthen  the muscles of stabilization of the shoulder  
998.88 -> so we have a heart pillow under our chest  
1002.88 -> and then we're going to it's important  to align the elbow with the shoulder here  
1009.68 -> and we're going to do the first stage is very  basic just doing like a catch cow just raising the  
1020.48 -> chest up and down you're putting weight on both  shoulders right and left just go down and up
1036.08 -> down up okay and then you can progress when this  becomes easy and you can do 20 repetitions of this  
1044.88 -> very easily you progress and the next stage  will be you're going to go side to side so  
1052.72 -> you're going to put more weight on  the left and more weight on the right  
1058.4 -> more weight on the left more weight on the right
1064.72 -> and do this 20 times on each side
1070.96 -> and you can rest if you get tired and go back so  you feel the weight of your chest going through  
1079.76 -> the left shoulder left elbow and when this  becomes easy that you're going side to side  
1087.28 -> you will start lifting the left the unaffected arm  and putting more weight on the affected edge side  
1100.32 -> so you do this and come back so you see i'm  lifting the good arm of the floor here and putting  
1110.32 -> almost all of the weight of my chest on the  affected side and then you do this 20 repetitions  
1120.16 -> and when this becomes easy to you you will  going to start lifting completely the good arm  
1128.24 -> and putting all of the weight of your chest is  going through the affected arm and then you rest
1139.6 -> then your left
1143.36 -> and rest
1147.44 -> lift rest and do this 20 times
1158.72 -> and don't forget the last exercise when you're  lying down should be the stretching and relaxing  
1167.52 -> exercise so the important thing to stretch  the shoulder is again is opening the axilla  
1176.16 -> so what we're going to do is we're going  to start going up opening the axilla  
1182.96 -> and find a position that is comfortable for you  if you can hold your hands here above your head  
1193.36 -> and stay in this position for a couple of  minutes and the important thing here is to relax  
1201.92 -> try to relax especially this muscles here the  pecs the pectoralis all the muscles of the axilla  
1209.68 -> because when the person has a stroke they have a  tendency there is rigidity pulling the arm to this  
1216.32 -> position so we need to do the opposite we need  to open and stay here for a couple of minutes  
1223.6 -> relaxing and stretching these muscles  so now this exercises you need a chair  
1238.8 -> and um these are very simple exercises again the  good hand is going to help the affected hinge so  
1247.2 -> grab them together interlacing your fingers  in your hand and elbows is straight touch one  
1256.8 -> knee and you're going to raise your  arms looking at your hand all the way up  
1264.96 -> to about the level of your head the  level of your nose and come down
1272.72 -> so go up you don't need to go too high  if you want to go too high higher you can  
1280.4 -> but don't forget to your eyes always  following the hinge okay that's very important  
1287.6 -> because your eyes are sending information to  the brain that the affected hinge is moving  
1295.04 -> and do this 20 repetitions because there is one  thing called neglect when a person has a stroke  
1304.56 -> the brain kind of forgets that the that part of  the body exists so you need to tell the brain  
1313.92 -> yes look at my hand it's moving so the brain will  wake up and make connections and you can do also  
1323.6 -> on the other side so relax it's important to  relax your shoulders and go on the opposite side  
1332.16 -> okay so do for both sides so now i'm going  from right knee to the left side of my head  
1341.28 -> and you see all the way i'm looking at my hands  it's really important that you look at your hands
1351.84 -> okay while you are in this position you  can also do some exercise for your elbows  
1358.32 -> relaxing your shoulders so now we're going grab  both hands hold both hands interlacing the fingers  
1367.76 -> and you're going now to binge the  elbows bring the hands close your chest  
1374.88 -> and down close to your chest and down so  the good hand is helping the affected hinge  
1383.2 -> and look at the affected hinge and tell your  brain you see it's moving so it can move  
1390.56 -> there is ability to move wake up you're going  to recover you're going to create some synapses  
1398.24 -> in your brain when you're doing those movements  you have to do them every day seven days a week
1405.84 -> so now we're doing some exercises for  a stretching of the muscles around the  
1410.56 -> shoulders and again we can use the cane and  if you don't have a good grasp of your hinge  
1418.08 -> just wrap a fabric around your hinge and  the handle so keep your elbows straight  
1428.24 -> and we're going to stretch the pectoralis  and biceps and do for the other side
1439.44 -> so this the pectoralis is this muscle here and  biceps is just one so you should be feeling  
1446.24 -> stretching of the muscles when you do this and the  good hinge is like a guide for the affected hinge
1455.92 -> and you do this so if this is the affected hinge  then i recommend you to do more on this side  
1465.12 -> but you can also do on the good side  in here so you see opening the axilla  
1472.88 -> some people have difficulty even to wash the  axilla because it's so tight the arm is so rigid  
1481.84 -> and it's so close to the chest that the person has  even difficulty to clean and to wash the axilla so  
1490.08 -> we are doing this we are doing stretching of  the biceps and biceps and pectoralis muscles
1499.36 -> so the other stretching that is important  is to stretch the trapezius muscles  
1504.48 -> trapezoids are just big muscles here and they  usually hurt there is usually myofascial pain  
1511.92 -> of the upper trapezius area that can radiate pain  to the shoulder so find a anchor on the side of  
1519.28 -> the chair here and you're going to pull slowly  to the other side relax and when you breathe out  
1529.6 -> so breathe out one two three four five six  seven eight nine ten you are pulling slowly  
1537.68 -> just slightly pulling you don't need to pull too  much take another deep breath one two three four  
1545.28 -> five six seven eight nine ten and another deep  breath one two three four five six seven eight  
1555.28 -> nine ten it's always good to do with the other  side but if this arm is weak you're not be you  
1562.24 -> you won't be able to do this so just do with the  affected side another muscle that usually hurts  
1572.4 -> around the shoulder is called levator scapula  it's a muscle around here in the shoulder blades  
1579.12 -> so you find an anchor here in the chair and  we are going to pull in the 45 degrees towards  
1586.88 -> your opposite knee so just put a good hinge on  the back of your head and take a deep breath  
1595.84 -> and when you breathe out you count loud to 10 and  pull slightly down towards the other knee okay one  
1605.6 -> two three four five six seven eight nine ten take  another deep breath one two three four five six  
1615.92 -> seven eight nine ten and another deep breath  one two three four five six seven eight nine ten
1628.8 -> come back slowly so then you don't get dizzy  
1633.52 -> so now for this stretching we need to stretch the  pectoralis muscles here you're going to sit on a  
1640.64 -> chair but the back is here because you're going  to grab your hands both of your hands behind  
1647.44 -> your body and you're going to pull backwards so  you see i'm stretching the pectoralis muscles  
1655.52 -> in front of my chest and i'm pulling both of  my hands backwards here so poop and come back  
1667.52 -> and you can do this again pull so you're opening  your chest stretching the pectoralis muscles  
1676.24 -> hold and come back and relax this is  important because pectoralis muscles  
1684.4 -> are usually very shortened and tight in people  who have a stroke that affects the shoulder  
1691.2 -> and come back so for this exercise you need  a desk or a table ideally the height of the  
1699.92 -> table should be at your elbow level so then  you're not shrugging your shoulders too much  
1706.64 -> and you're comfortably sitting here and  the first exercise we're going to do here  
1712 -> on this desk or table is the exercise to  rotate the elbows you're going to grab  
1721.2 -> both hands together interlacing the fingers  so the good hand is going to help the  
1728.16 -> bad hinge so you're going to do this rotation  movement this is important for the elbows mainly
1740.64 -> okay and do this 20 times for each side if  you get fatigued you can stop and increase the  
1753.36 -> repetitions the next day and you  should be doing this every day
1762.08 -> so we cannot forget the rest too  because the wrist can also get rigid so  
1769.12 -> when you are in this position here you can  also move the good hinge helping to move the  
1776 -> bad one the affected hinge and going in one  direction and the other one so the good hinge  
1786 -> should be helping the affected hinge to  open the fingers because they usually  
1792.16 -> that's the position that usually the patient will  hold so then the good hinge will open the fingers  
1799.6 -> interlacing them and let's do the movement of the  rest so both of the elbows are on the table here  
1808.24 -> and you're just moving the wrist to from one  side to the other one and you can also do side  
1814.56 -> to side or up and down so this is up and down  this is side to side and make sure that the  
1823.04 -> good hinge is always helping the fingers to open  because the tendency is to close and be like this  
1836 -> so for this exercise you're going to imagine that  there is a imaginary object that you need to grasp  
1844.72 -> so you're going to stretch stretch stretch with  your fingers open and bring the object to you  
1854.48 -> so this is the stretching of the arm open  open open and close can do with both hands  
1865.44 -> so the good hands can imitate each other so if  you want you can do with both and always looking  
1873.52 -> at the affected hinge you need to train your  brain that your affected hinge can move so arm  
1883.2 -> goes in front stretch stretch and reach far  open the fingers and when you're bringing  
1891.2 -> the imaginary object you close your hinge do  there's many repetitions as you can if you  
1897.92 -> get fatigued you stop and then you take notes how  many you could do today and your goal is tomorrow  
1905.68 -> to repeat do more repetitions that you could do  today up to the level that you can do 20 of this  
1913.28 -> every day so now for this exercise you're going  to put your elbow on the table and you're going to  
1923.2 -> go all the way this side of the table and open  ideally with your elbow stretch if you can  
1934 -> maintain your elbow straight that's  ideal and the other hinge is on your side  
1941.28 -> keep your eyes on your affected hinge so your  brain is learning that this arm is able to move
1952.48 -> right if you can't hold this because  it's too tiring for you to keep the  
1958.88 -> elbow straight you can just do this  so you're opening and closing here
1972.96 -> so this exercise now is similar to the previous  one that we ditched but now we are going to do  
1978.64 -> with both hands together elbows are straight so  it's important that you interlace the fingers  
1985.52 -> so the hand will be opening here  
1988.8 -> elbows are straight and we are going to move the  trunk so you see i'm now moving my whole body  
1997.68 -> to one side and now to the other side the  previous exercise was just moving the shoulder  
2006 -> now i'm moving my whole body and i'm looking  at my hands and on the other side so do this  
2017.44 -> as many repetitions you can and you get  fatigued and ideally 20 on each side okay
2028.64 -> so now another movement that we need to do from  the shoulder is to help the shoulder to rotate  
2034.88 -> one of the important movements  that a person with stroke  
2039.52 -> loses when they have a stroke is the ability to do  external rotation and although they can do this if  
2048.4 -> you know this is one of the exercises they could  be doing elbows close to the chest and opening up  
2054.64 -> it's hard because sometimes it hurts so the  easiest way of doing this is the good hinge will  
2061.84 -> help the affected side so put your elbows on  the table relax the arm ideally with the elbow  
2070.88 -> straight but if not possible this is okay so  the good hinge will rotate the shoulder out  
2079.52 -> and inside you see my hand moving i'm not doing  anything with my hand i'm just this is doing all  
2085.6 -> the movement so there i grab my arm here and  it goes inside and out so this is moving the  
2097.36 -> humerus this the ball inside of the socket inside  and outside this is excellent to prevent frozen  
2104.32 -> shoulder so out and inside outside and inside  okay do this 20 times for your affected arm okay
2120.88 -> so now the last two exercises here in the chair  and desk is stretching exercise so we're going  
2128.56 -> to stretch our rhomboids the muscles on the  back of your thoracic spine and to do this  
2136.16 -> both hands together interlacing the fingers  
2139.44 -> always looking at your hand and  we're going to go forward forward and
2148.32 -> so you have to feel stretching on the back of  your shoulder and stretch and when you are there  
2155.92 -> just stay there relax
2159.92 -> and come back and again you can do  this as many repetitions you can  
2168.08 -> go in front you're stretching all the muscles on  the back of your shoulders and when you get here  
2175.44 -> make sure you relax and look  at your hinge you are relaxed
2184.08 -> and come back do these many repetitions
2190.4 -> so the last exercise is stretching  of the latissimus of the dorsal here  
2198.24 -> and to do this i recommend that you get your  
2202.16 -> cane and you hold both hands here if you can't  have a good grasp just wrap a fabric around  
2210.72 -> your hand so you hold both here and with the  desk in front of you you're going to put your  
2218.8 -> elbows on the desk here and you're going to lower  your head and you have to feel your latissimus  
2228.72 -> stretching and opening there you can even rest  your head on the table and try to pull the pain  
2240.08 -> behind your head and you're stretching  all the muscles here the latissimus the
2245.44 -> triceps i hope you enjoyed these exercises for  this stroke shoulder if you continue having  
2262.16 -> shoulder pain after stroke talk to your  doctor you may need other treatments like  
2267.04 -> medications or other modalities i have another  video that i talk about neuropathic pain and  
2273.36 -> the type of medications that we use to treat  post-stroke pain it's also important that you  
2279.44 -> treat any anxiety depression or mood disorder  associated with stroke see this other video  
2285.92 -> where i talk about mind-body therapies for pain  remember that the treatment of chronic pain is  
2293.44 -> better when you use multiple tools i like to  remember my patients that they need a toolbox  
2299.52 -> to self-manage their pain the type of tools  include movement modalities manual therapy  
2306.96 -> mind-body therapies and medications these  are the five m's of self-management toolbox
2315.52 -> well it is better not to have a stroke than to  treat it we all know that an ounce of prevention  
2322.4 -> is worth a pound of cure how can we prevent  a stroke high blood pressure continues to  
2328.96 -> be the strongest factor leading to stroke make  sure you treat and monitor your blood pressure  
2335.44 -> obesity diabetes high cholesterol  smoking and low physical activity are all  
2342.16 -> important factors leading to stroke and  these are things that can be modified  
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