Misconceptions about recovery from hemiplegia after stroke

   For the vast majority of patients who recover spontaneously, it is the inappropriate recovery that greatly exacerbates their disability. Inappropriate recovery often manifests itself in blind activity, believing that the more you move, the better your recovery will be. The most common phenomenon is that blind activity results in the appearance of many wrong movements and the fixation of wrong habits, which will gradually aggravate the muscle spasm and eventually render the limb completely immobile due to myospasm. In fact, the recovery process of hemiplegia is actually a process for patients to relearn various life skills, during which various wrong movements are inevitable, but the key is to correct the wrong movements in time after they occur, and not to let these wrong movements become fixed and become wrong habits. Recovery process because of the wrong habits caused by the loss of function is much greater than the loss of function caused by the disease itself. In short, it is not better to move more, but to move as much as possible under proper guidance.  The reluctance to move after a stroke or taking care of the patient too well, resulting in too little activity, is a major taboo in hemiplegia recovery. If the patient is too little active, it will not only cause osteoporosis, muscle atrophy and gradual decline of physical ability, but more importantly, it will sit and wait for the loss of the golden period, so that the recovery of the limbs cannot reach the best state. The recovery of post-stroke hemiplegia is highly time-sensitive. Generally speaking, the golden period of recovery is within the first three months after the stroke, and the recovery is the fastest at this time. There is also a relatively rapid recovery within six months. Within two years, there is still a certain degree of recovery. For a small number of patients with mild disease, a relatively good recovery may be possible with the use of drugs, acupuncture, hyperbaric oxygen and other means. However, for the majority of patients, this is not enough and requires a very hard and long time effort to get a more satisfactory recovery.