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Showing posts with label ▷ 2013 Sep 14. Show all posts
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Saturday, September 14, 2013
Service Dogs or Therapy Dogs
SSTattler: There are 3 classification of dogs:
1) Service (or Assistance) Dogs,
2) In-Training Service Dogs,
3) Therapy Dogs.
All 3 types can be used by stroke survivors. NOTE: Some Service Dogs have a licence for the task for the Therapy Dogs but the Therapy Dogs does not have a licence for the Service Dogs. See the definitions below.
Service Dogs from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
A service dog is a type of assistance dog specifically trained to help people who have disabilities including visual difficulties, hearing impairments, mental illness, seizures, diabetes, Autism, and more.
Desirable character traits in service animals typically include good temperament or psychological make-up (including biddability and trainability) and good health (including physical structure and stamina). Service dogs are often trained and bred by service dog organizations. Labrador Retrievers, German Shepherds, Golden Retrievers, and in recent years American Pit Bull Terriers are the most common breeds used as service dogs, but any breed or mix of breeds is capable of being a service dog, though few dogs have all of the health and temperament qualities needed. Such a dog may be called a "service dog" or an "assistance dog," depending largely on country. Occasionally they are incorrectly referred to as "Seeing Eye Dogs" however this refers to a specific organization and not to all Guide Dogs.
1) Service (or Assistance) Dogs,
2) In-Training Service Dogs,
3) Therapy Dogs.
All 3 types can be used by stroke survivors. NOTE: Some Service Dogs have a licence for the task for the Therapy Dogs but the Therapy Dogs does not have a licence for the Service Dogs. See the definitions below.
Service Dogs from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
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| A service dog wearing a colorful vest and a waterproof coat with reflective markings. |
Desirable character traits in service animals typically include good temperament or psychological make-up (including biddability and trainability) and good health (including physical structure and stamina). Service dogs are often trained and bred by service dog organizations. Labrador Retrievers, German Shepherds, Golden Retrievers, and in recent years American Pit Bull Terriers are the most common breeds used as service dogs, but any breed or mix of breeds is capable of being a service dog, though few dogs have all of the health and temperament qualities needed. Such a dog may be called a "service dog" or an "assistance dog," depending largely on country. Occasionally they are incorrectly referred to as "Seeing Eye Dogs" however this refers to a specific organization and not to all Guide Dogs.
Service Dogs or Therapy Dogs - Video
1) Service or Assistance Dogs
Best Friend: Being a Service Dog
Uploaded on Jan 21, 2010Assistance dogs are born and raised to help make life a little bit easier for people with disabilities -- and every little bit counts. Thanks to the volunteers of Canine Companions for Independence (CCI) for their time and support!
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Saturday Comics
| For Better and For Worse Lynn Johnston - 2008-07-30  "The feeling is mucilage!" | Dilbert Scott Adams - 2013-09-13  "...carve it on a peanut and give it to a squirrel !" |
Garfield Jim Davis - 2013-09-10  "Sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity -- BONK!!" | Betty Delainey & Rasmussen - 2013-09-12  "...if there's no human interaction?" |
*For Better and For Worse" is a serious topic of stroke but with a very nice cartoons. It is all about Grandpa Jim had a stroke and 88 further cartoon "strips" that happened to Grandpa Jim. See as well the cartoonist Lynn Johnston.
** I tried to get low or free price at the people http://www.UniversalUclick.com/ for the images for the cartoons. It was too high for Stroke Survivors Tattler i.e. we are not a regular newspaper and our budget is very low. Fortunately, you will have to do only 1-click more to see the cartoon image, it is legit and it is free using GoComics.com and Dilbert.com.
*** Changed from "Pickles" to "Betty" -- "Betty" is a excellent cartoon and Gary Delainey & Gerry Rasmussen are authors/artists/cartoon-strips and they live in Edmonton.
Eclectic Stuff
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Definition: Eclectic(noun) a person who derives ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources.
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Welcome to Pamela Hsieh - Guest Blogger in Stroke Survivors Tattler!
Pamela Hsieh started her blog, Rehab Revolution, April 2010 and since then she is continually write various topic about stroke and she says, "... goal to inspire lively conversation between healers, patients, caregivers, and anyone who supports what we do." Welcome Pamela to Guest Blogger Stroke Survivors Tattler! See "About Us" as well.
Guest Blogger - Pamela Hsieh
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| Pamela Hsieh Rehab Revolution |
- Pamela Hsieh is an entrepreneur and writer.
- She was nineteen when she suffered a stroke from a cerebral hemorrhage in her right frontal lobe. It paralyzed the left side of her body, but fortunately did not permanently affect her cognition.
- Since her brain injury, she has lived abroad (in Florence, Italy, and again in Bologna, Italy) twice for about ten months at a time, and graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which luckily is the United States’ most disability-accessible university, in May 2009, seven years after her enrolment.
- She has a bachelor’s degree in Italian Studies and Rhetoric (creative writing). It is her strong belief that healing and recuperation from the effects of brain injury are the result of one’s drive, that the body is a beautiful, dynamic organism with endless possibilities.
- If you have remarkable story of injury and healing to share and would like to help me in this movement as a coauthor, or if you'd like to submit a guest article, please let Pamela know. My site, Rehab Revolution, welcomes a diversity of viewpoints on the subjects of well being and awareness.
- This Rehab Revolution is constantly a work in progress, but please leave comments if you ever have anything to say or ask! It is Rehab Revolution’s goal to inspire lively conversation between healers, patients, caregivers, and anyone who supports what we do. Together, let’s develop a community.
Dog
Aug 15, 2013
If I didn’t have the cutest dog in the world, there would have been many, many, many, many, many days that I didn’t leave the house, didn’t go outside. But I had to go outside, I had to take her out. If you get sick, get a dog. If you have little kids I’m sure you probably don’t need a puppy on top of that but if you have no kids to raise like me, get a dog.See the original article + 21 Comments:
Dog
in My Cerebellar Stroke Recovery
Puppy Love
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| Barb Polan Barb's Recovery |
Our latest dog died four years ago. she was a half-black-Lab mutt who was 12 and spent the final two years of her life elderly and fading - deaf, with hypothyroidism and arthritis, along with neuropathy in her hind legs. I have had a dog or two of my own since I was 20 years old - first a black Lab-Newfoundland mix who was the best dog of all time, then a big beagle mix who lasted only until he was 11; while we had that one, we took in a second dog, a black Lab stray who wandered into our yard one day collar-less; none of the animal control officers in the three towns we bordered had received a lost-dog call about a black Lab. We eventually gave that one away to a co-worker of Tom's who was looking for a nice, calm dog.
Car-Riding Dog Therapy - Sensation
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| Dean Reinke Deans' Stroke Musing |
It hit 80 degrees here today so after bowling (best was 184 with 4xs in a row) I rolled down the window and when I came to a stoplight lifted my left arm to hang out the window. This provides extra sensation as the wind whips thru the hand and flaps the long sleeve. My spastic lats don't let up in the 20 minute drive home. But hey, every little bit helps.
Wouldn't you want your therapist to do this as part of your therapy regime?
From aybanlim Dog Expression ...
See the original article:
Car-Riding Dog Therapy - Sensation
in Deans' Stroke Musing
My New Roles
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| Grace Carpenter My Happy Stroke |
Sometimes kids are fascinated by my brace. I can see the gears turning: is her leg real? Can she take her leg off? Does it hurt?
"This is a brace," I tell the kids, if I have enough energy to talk. "It helps me to walk. It doesn't hurt, but my leg doesn't work very well right now."
The other day I was walking without my brace, but very slowly and leaning on my cane. I saw a woman with a dog coming down the road on the other side. As I approached, the dog--who looked young--started to bark loudly at me.
God Made a Dog
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| Monty Becker Stroke Survivors Tattler |
On the 8th day, God made a farmer.
On the 9th day, He made a dog.
If I used your photo but didn't give you credit, so sorry. Just let me know and I'll fix that.
Top Comments:
HawaiiBob Sutterfield Happy to pick up poop forever if they could live forever.
TUBEQUEENEE Doesn't care if you're black, white, catholic, jewish, democratic, republican, male, female, fat, skinny, straight, gay, beautiful or ugly... God made a Dog!
See the full 577 comments by God Made a DogGod Made a Dog - first published on June 29, 2013 in SSTattler.
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To the Rescue
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| Marcelle Greene Up Stroke |
Almost two years have passed since my golden retriever died. My subsequent stroke prolonged the grieving-before-replacement period because I am now incapable of walking a dog, training or cleaning up after it.
But after much fawning over friends' dogs, I decided that the benefits of daily interaction with my own would outweigh the challenges. Clearly, I could not manage a puppy... but an elderly adult?
I searched the online pounds and rescue organizations and discovered Bella, a nine-year-old Golden Retriever found in a park in Taiwan. Filthy and emaciated, she was nursed back to health over the course of a year. In July she was flown to the United States because she had a better chance of adoption here.
Sunday Stroke Survival ~ Grief- Depression
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| Jo Murphey The Murphey Saga |
Welcome to stage three of my series on grief counseling. Today's topic is depression. Everyone gets depressed once in a while. If someone tells you they've never been depressed and they are over the age of ten...THEY ARE LYING.That's like the couple that say they never argue. Someone is stuffing their feelings and they are not communicating to each other. They are in big trouble.
You've had a significant loss in your life and it has changed forever. If there is any more greater reason to be depressed, I can't think of one. Everyone gets blue when thinking of what they've lost.
Repetitive Practice Stroke
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| Peter G. Levine Stronger After Stroke Blog |
What is the key to recovery? Everybody now: Repetition! I've written about this before here, here and here (journal article; co-author).
Everybody knows that repetitive practice (also known as repetitive task practice) is the way to reestablish executive (brain) control over the body. To regain control of an arm and hand repetitive practice can be used to reestablish that control. To regain control over a leg during walking, repetitive practice (walking) can be used to reestablish control over walking.It's not rocket science. And it's not brain science, until it is.
More Axes to Wield...
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| Diane The Pink House On The Corner |
On Friday morning, I talked with the nurse at Bob's primary care doctor's office. She had gotten "some" of the pre-op test results back and was waiting to discuss those results with the doctor before giving me the "go ahead" to take Bob off the warfarin and start the heparin bridge that weekend.
She said she'd call me back.
By 4:30 p.m., I hadn't heard from her so called the office and was connected to her voice mail. I left a message and told her that I was waiting for her call. I wasn't too concerned, even though it was late in the day on the Friday before the Labor Day Weekend, because I've dealt with this nurse before and she always follows through, even if it is after hours.
Cancer Versus Stroke
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| Rebecca Dutton Home After a Stroke |
When Medicare was enacted in 1965 breast cancer was a death sentence. It was such a devastating diagnosis that no one talked about it. President Ford's wife was the first woman I heard admit she had breast cancer. Today if you ask doctors what they recommend for treating breast cancer the answer depends on several factors. Is the cancer stimulated by estrogen?
Do you have the genetic form of breast cancer? Has the cancer spread to the lymph nodes? Does a combination of surgery, chemo and radiation therapy increase your odds of recovery?
Stroke Risk and Smoking
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| Jeff Porter Stroke of Faith |
Smoking: a known stroke risk. And recent research shows that women are particularly at risk for the deadliest type of stroke. Read more on how stroke risk is similar among men and women smokers worldwide:
Smoking cigarettes may cause similar stroke risks for men and women, but women smokers may be at greater risk for a more deadly and uncommon type of stroke, according to new research in the American Heart Association journal Stroke.When compared to non-smokers of the same gender, smoking increases the risk of having any type of stroke by 60 to 80 percent in women and men.
See the original article:
Stroke Risk and Smoking
in Stroke of Faith
Connectomics: Jeff Lichtman at TEDxCaltech
Jeff Lichtman is Jeremy R. Knowles Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard. He received an A.B. from Bowdoin (1973), and an M.D. and Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis (1980) where he worked for 30 years before moving to Cambridge (2004). He is a member of Harvard's newly established Center for Brain Science. Jeff's research interests revolve around the question of how mammalian brain circuits are physically altered by experiences, especially in early life.
He has focused on the dramatic re-wiring of neural connections in early postnatal development. More recently his research has focused on developing new electron microscopy methods to map the entire wiring diagram of the developing and adult brain. One of the principal aims of this "connectomics" approach is to uncover the ways information is stored in neural networks.
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RMR: Edmonton Waste Management Centre
Rick gets his hands dirty at the Edmonton Waste Management Centre.
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