20-Minute, Real-Time Arm and Leg Weight-Bearing Exercises to Strengthen Affected Side After Stroke

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For those survivors who have little to no active movement in their affected side, my other exercise videos may be too much. In this video, I walk you through 5 weight-bearing exercises that can be done seated and that address both arms and legs.

Weight-bearing exercises can be very helpful to improve strength, temporarily reduce high muscle tone and spasticity, improve bone density and provide proprioceptive input to our joints, muscles, and tendons (so we better know where our body is in space).

What You’ll Need:
A bed or couch to sit on
A sturdy surface to hang on to
Someone else to help, if you’re unstable sitting upright
A pillow
Willingness to work out with me!

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Time Stamps
0:00 Intro
0:42 Affected Arm & Hand
5:31Affected Elbow & Forearm
9:35 Both Arms in Extension
13:18 Seated Forward Lean onto Legs
16:28 Seated Leg Weight Shift
22:46 Outro
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Medical Disclaimer: All content on this channel is for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to serve as a substitute for medical advice or treatment from a physician or qualified healthcare provider. Talk to your doctor before starting a new exercise or therapy regimen.e.

[wenamaydiaz]

Hi eleyse your Videos are very helpful especially for me ... 30 years old stroke survivor ... I do my DIY therapy Exercises with the help & guide of your Videos ...it seems like Having an online therapy with you.... Everyday is always a Recovery day with you ...❤️❤️❤️thank you

[nikkicicero]

I live on Saint Croix US Virgin and I live alone and you have been an inspiration for me because I have been very dark places mentally and somehow you seem to help me pull out of the darkness. I find great motivation and your YouTube channel helps me achieve some semblance of normalcy. I suffer a great fatigue and So it is hard but your channel helps me get motivated. We have no services here so your YouTube channel is so helpful I get therapy three times a week but it’s not as helpful as your YouTube channel sometimes I feel the people are overworked and just going through a routine

[daveoraye]

Your videos are very helpful for me, stroke survivor from the phillipines, thank you so much

[deulahbolante]

Thank God i found your chsnnel. I m a stroke survivor. Recently i m experiencing spasticity on my stroke affected area. I will appreciate more videos to relieve pain from spasticity & nruropathy. More power to you & your channel!

[barbaraleach]

Yes, I would love to see more videos on weight bearing. I have to get used to putting weight on my right side…affected side. Love your videos!❤

[charliehay]

Ma'am you are an amazing person..thank you for truly caring about stroke survivors.. you have been an absolute blessing to me and my recovery I pray GOD bless and protect you and your family!

[poojahm]

The above shared video is very helpful. Will add it to my routine. Yes please do share some more videos on weight bearing exercises. Thank you once again for taking out the time to keep sharing videos to help all of us. You are an angel in disguise ❤❤

[alanaquestelles]

Thank you I enjoyed the leg exercises. Thank you

[drsoxami]

Thank you. . My wife is right side deficit due to her recent stroke. I found these informative and will help my wife do them. Can you also provide therapy that helps people to get back long term and permanent use of their hands, feet, speech.

[darlenetaylor]

My husband recently had a left-brain stroke and has no function in his right arm and leg in addition to no speech. Spending 7 weeks in the hospital with complications, he had no therapy and lost critical recovery time. He was in acute rehab for 19 days and started making some progress with one hour each of PT, OT, and SLP 6 days a week. He is now in short-term rehab and not receiving enough PT, OT, and SLP on a consistent basis and I fear that he is going to lose ground on his gains. I found this video very helpful and will try to work with him when visiting him are the rehab. Thank you for sharing this video. These techniques are used at Spaulding Rehab in Boston as I saw during family training. I can use this video with my husband to help him.

[vnshenoy]

Hi Dr.
these videos are a great help and always waiting for your next video.l am recovering from a stroke and you are an angel for me 🙏

[عبدالعزيزعبدالكريمطالب]

I'm really appreciate what you do on your channel it's really help me you really understand what the stroke survivors feel like and what they going through every day

[nadiachtioui]

Thank you so much for what you do . I would like to see a video about weight bearing on the arm for a bed bound person . Thank you Elyse and his bless you.

[MureenPaul]

Ur exercises are really helpful indeed am a stroke survivor too am 42 years old been in this for three years

[orlandotogle]

Very helpful excerpt.Thank you for your time.

[poojahm]

Yes the above shared exercises
are awesome ❤❤

[cphawaii]

Awesome! Why didn't therapists these last months not give my niece? I was telling her to put weight on her affected leg but this baby step hopefully should do the trick to help her get use to doing that. Thank you for posting!

[josephinegithinji]

I find these exercises so helpful and comfortable to do. Thank you. Am recovering from stroke

[ma.cristinaceles]

Dr.Elyse thank you for sharing your expertise, it helps a lot especially for us recovering from stroke.

[glroriaangeles]

Thank you so much for your help . It i is very much a

Appreciated.