The frustrating truth about progress, and why the ceiling you’ve hit probably isn’t permanent You were making progress. Slow, hard-won, sometimes barely perceptible progress, but progress nonetheless. Then something changed. Or rather, something stopped changing. Your arm is where it was three weeks ago. Perhaps six weeks ago. The exercises continue. The appointments continue. The […]
Because waiting for someone else to fix this is not a strategy Let’s establish something uncomfortable from the outset. The rehabilitation system will give you appointments. It will give you exercises, protocols, and professionally laminated instruction sheets. What it cannot give you is agency. The belief that you are an active participant in your own […]
A conversation about the shadow nobody warns you about Here’s a question they don’t ask in the hospital: What happens when your body starts healing but your mind stays broken? The medical establishment, bless them, focuses intently on what they can measure. Blood pressure. Mobility scores. Speech articulation. Range of motion. All tremendously important, naturally. […]
How a mechanical engineer turned clinical hypnotist John A.O’Connor is transforming stroke rehabilitation in Ireland * * * Engineers are trained to solve problems that doctors are trained to manage. This distinction matters more than you might think. Consider the curious case of stroke rehabilitation. For decades, the medical establishment has approached recovery as a […]