After Stroke - Softcover

Hinds, David M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0722538855 ISBN 13: 9780722538852

Publisher: Thorsons, 2000

Synopsis

A ‘step-by-step blueprint for getting better’ – a unique programme devised by a stress management consultant and the sufferer of 2 strokes

When David Hinds sufferered 2 paralysing strokes, he created a plan using ‘tools’ which were taken from his 19 years as a hugely successful stress management trainer. His own story will also add a human element so often lacking in books of this kind. Here is a man who was only able to read thomas the Tank Engine who 2 years later has written this book. The book covers:
· the mental response and how stroke sufferers move through grief (as they mourn the loss of faculties, lifestyle and status, then alarm, shock, denial, anger, guilt, acceptance and adjustment
· depresion and how to cope with it
· Exercise and physio – with step-by-step line drawings
· Simple, clear messages to help in the first 10 days following a stroke (the time of greatest scope for recovery)
· Advice for family and carers: immediate and easy access to information, reassurance
· Endurance and the willingness to persevere
Written with humour, frankness and authority and in a large square format with interactive design.

About this title

Review:

"A warm and motivating read" -- Eoin Redahan, The Stroke Association

From the Author:

"At 50 years of age, after my second stroke, I could no longer comprehend a newspaper. At 52, I wrote this book."

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorsons
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0722538855
• ISBN 13: 9780722538852
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192