Did you find this article while searching for advice for stroke survivors to make the most out of their recovery? I’ll share some information that I hope will be helpful.
As you know, it is important to maintain healthy habits to prevent a future stroke. Even though many people know the importance of stroke management, they may feel they don’t know how to undertake the process. So today, I’m going to introduce 5 apps that can help you manage your stroke continuously.
1. Calm – Meditation App
After a stroke, you may experience sudden emotional changes or sleep poorly. Many experts say that we should try to accept and control the emotional changes, and make adjustments to our lifestyle and environment to achieve better sleep. One of the best ways to control emotional change is to meditate. Meditation allows you to control anxiety and refocus your energy.
Calm is a top-performing app for Sleep, Meditation and Relaxation. This app has over 50 million downloads and over 700,000 5-star reviews. It was also honored to be an Apple BEST OF 2018 award winner, Apple’s App of the Year 2017, Google Play Editor’s Choice 2018, and was named by the Center for Humane Technology as “the world’s happiest app”.
The main functions of Calm:
Meditate (Learn the life-changing skill of meditation)
Sleep (Get more restful sleep and wake up feeling refreshed)
Music (Exclusive music to help you focus, relax, and sleep)
Calm Price: Free, or a paid premium subscription of $14.99/month, $69.99/year, or $399.99/lifetime.
There’s a lot to take care of after a stroke, but are you at a loss where to start? Neofect takes the guesswork out of stroke recovery and management with Neofect Connect, a lifestyle app for stroke survivors. Neofect Connect is a comprehensive wellness and stroke recovery program, incorporating a decade of Neofect’s rehabilitation expertise and extensive research on health and wellness.
Our engaging and life-changing materials are based on rehabilitation strategies that facilitate neuroplasticity, helping you to make brain changes that will allow you to return to your routines and get your life back on track.
– Everything You Need to Know Right Here
Get easy-to-read daily articles and educational material on stroke rehab, behavioral health, lifestyle, nutrition, mindfulness and more, written by experts.
– Lasting Behavioral Changes
Neofect Connect explains the how and why behind stroke recovery tips, making it easy and compelling to adopt healthy habits into your lifestyle.
– Comprehensive Video Exercises
Maximize your recovery with daily video tutorials and professional exercise demonstrations.
Exercise content is tailored to your capabilities to help you stay focused, consistent, and successful.
Neofect Connect Price: Free, or VIP subscription of $19.99/monthly plan, $49.99/3 month plan, $69.99/6 month plan, $99.99/Annual Plan
– Basic rehab content (Limited articles, exercises, and videos) – Daily missions – Upgrade to the VIP Plan to Jump-Start Recovery
Neofect Connect offers a free plan including a limited selection of educational content. Subscribers can maximize their experience with the VIP plan, providing unlimited reading and video content, customized daily missions, and regular evaluations and progress reports.
A holistic wellness app for stroke survivors, Neofect Connect
3. Medisafe
Medisafe is a great medication reminder app.
With Medisafe, you get personalized reminders for each of your medications and vital drug interaction warnings. You can stay connected to your caregivers through real-time missed medication alerts.
The main features:
Med and Refill Reminders: Be notified when your prescriptions are running low so you are never without your meds.
Drug Interaction Warnings: Get an alert whenever any of your prescribed medications should not be taken together (US only).
Price: Free or paid premium plan for $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year.
It is also important to maintain a strong social network with family and friends after stroke. It’s even better if your social network is supportive of your recovery journey and helps you stay on task during your daily routine!
Cozi is the must-have organizer for families. It helps coordinate and communicate everyone’s schedules and activities, track grocery lists, manage to do lists, plan ahead for dinner, and keep the whole family on the same page.
As a stroke survivor, you are understandably focused on improving the quality of your daily life. Another important part of any recovery program is brain training to restore and enhance cognitive function. To boost your thinking skills, try the brain training workouts offered in the popular Peak app.
The Peak app is a great choice to challenge your brain. You can push your cognitive skills, train hard, and make great use of your time with fun, stimulating games and workouts. The Peak app was honored Best of the year and Editor’s Choice in both AppStore and GooglePlay.
The games are designed to push you hard with short, intense workouts designed around your life. You can challenge the skills that matter to you most with games that test your focus, memory, problem solving, reaction time and more.
Meet Coach, your personal trainer in Peak. The coach will challenge you with new workouts, track your progress, and show you where and how you can improve, keeping you motivated and pushing you further.
Price: Free or paid Premium plan $4.99 per month or $34.99 per year
So far, we’ve introduced 5 apps that are useful to stroke survivors. As consistent rehabilitation is important for stroke recovery, I encourage you to use the apps above consistently to help boost your stroke recovery. This information is intended for informational purposes, so we advise readers to refer to each website for more information.
Neofect announces the launch of its new app, Neofect Connect, developed to deliver customized exercises, educational tools, and motivation to guide patients at home as they work to regain the use of their hands and arms after experiencing a stroke.
The app provides reminders, daily exercises, and educational resources to help patients recovering from stroke stay engaged with their rehabilitation. For current users of Neofect’s Smart Rehabilitation Solutions — including the Neofect Smart Glove, the Neofect Smart Board, and the Neofect Smart Kids — the app also serves as a library to store and access activity summaries and progress reports, according to Neofect in a media release.
“Neofect Connect is designed to support, inspire, and empower stroke survivors through rehabilitation at home. Rehabilitation is a time-consuming and tedious process, and it can be hard for patients to stay motivated, especially without the benefit of in-person therapy. Connect is meant to help patients establish regular rehabilitation practices and reinforce lifelong behavioral changes that are essential to their health and wellness.”
— Scott Kim, co-founder and CEO of Neofect USA
The app first walks users through a detailed stroke evaluation to determine the affected side and user mobility, then encourages them to set goals that serve as the foundation for recommended exercises and educational resources.
With a user’s needs and ability level in mind, Connect then suggests daily activities — such as using a toothbrush with the affected hand, writing a name five times, or trying to operate scissors without assistance — best suited for their recovery. Most importantly, Connect sends users daily reminders and push notifications so that patients never miss an exercise and maintain an active rehabilitation schedule, the release continues.
“Consistency is critical to recovery,” Kim adds. “Connect keeps daily exercises and rehabilitation top of mind, so stroke survivors don’t miss a session and derail their progress.”
Connect also delivers educational materials and videos developed by Neofect’s licensed therapists to prepare patients for what to expect during rehabilitation. It offers advice, inspirational messages, and tips to establish better lifestyle habits, boost mental health, and improve a user’s overall well-being. Additionally, a diary function enables users to log personal notes about their activities and achievements.
Neofect unveils Neofect Smart Balance, a lower-body rehabilitation device designed to help patients recovering from stroke, ambulatory injuries, and other lower body disabilities regain function in their legs via augmented reality.
Recognized as a 2020 CES Innovation Award honoree, Neofect Smart Balance features 16 rehabilitation games that emphasize core strength, restabilization, and balance, all with the goal of helping patients walk unassisted.
The rehab device features a 2.5-foot by 2.5-foot “Dance Dance Revolution”-esque board designed to evaluate a patient’s posture and gait, then track and analyze motions, providing feedback when it senses an imbalance. Optional handlebars provide additional stability as needed. As patients advance, Neofect Smart Balance games increase speed of movement and coordination as patients step on and off the pad, according to the company, US-based in San Francisco, in a media release.
“For the past decade we’ve focused on hand and upper arm rehabilitation, but we’ve always wanted to create more engaging and measurable therapy for patients who need to recover leg function — whether that’s relearning how to walk or regaining range of motion and confidence,” Scott Kim, co-founder and CEO of Neofect USA, says in the release.
“With Neofect Smart Balance, games like ‘Rock Band’ prompt users to move their feet, in this case to the beat of a song. Patients are physically and cognitively challenged and can also have fun while rehabilitating.”
Neofect Smart Balance is designed for use in healthcare clinics and at home, increasing accessibility of treatment for patients with limited mobility. It securely and remotely shares progress reports with therapists, so they can monitor and adjust patients’ recovery regimen as needed.
Neofect announces it is also showcasing Neofect Connect, a new coaching and companion app, at CES 2020. Designed as an extension of therapy in a clinical setting to support and inspire stroke survivors through recovery at home, Neofect Connect will recommend customized daily exercises and educational materials based on patient ability.
The app, which will be available for any stroke survivor regardless if they use Neofect’s solutions, will include a digital telehealth program where physical and occupational therapists will connect with users remotely to guide their rehabilitation.
Neofect Connect is available on the Apple App Store and on the Google Play Store for homeNeofect users and will be open to any stroke survivor in spring 2020, per the release.
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