http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2010/06/30/health-and-family/medical-update/stroke-advances-part-2.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stroke-advances-part-2 Home of The Saturday Evening Post Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:02:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2010/06/30/health-and-family/medical-update/stroke-advances-part-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-16096 Susan Hatch Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:27:42 +0000 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=23784#comment-16096 re: my previous post….should read:
*prohibative cost

]]> http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2010/06/30/health-and-family/medical-update/stroke-advances-part-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-16095 Susan Hatch Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:24:19 +0000 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=23784#comment-16095 I have been a caregiver for a 37 year old stroke survivor for the past ten months. In addition to his full time job as a purchaser/buyer, Mark was also a drummer. After using the Bioness Ness H200 in outpatient therapy, his occupational therapist recommended obtaining the device for home use. Her recommendation was back in January of this year. After multiple denials by Mark’s insurance company to cover the cost of the device (they consider it to be investigational), as well as a denial by the Department of Occupational and Vocational Rehabilitation (our case worker advised that a different office of OVR has approved this item in the past), we are left with the frustration and dissapointment of not being able to readily obtain this device because of the prohibative could. (July 24 will mark the one year anniversary of the stroke that almost claimed Mark’s life. To date he walks with a brace on his left leg, has some movement of his left arm, but has little to no movement in his left hand. His occupational therapist feels there is potential movement in his arm and hand that is being over-ridden by the tone in his arm. Pending insurance approval, Mark will receive Botox in his arm in early August. Hopefully, this will reduce his tone, allowing for more movement in his arm and hand.) Being people of a strong faith, we continue to move forward, trusting in what God has planned for Mark’s recovery, doing everything we are able to do in that process.

]]> http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2010/06/30/health-and-family/medical-update/stroke-advances-part-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-15972 Frank James Davis Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:27:35 +0000 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=23784#comment-15972 Aren’t we overly “streamlining” the language when we say “Stroke Advances” and not “Stroke Treatment Advances” or “Stroke Therapy Advances?”
Shouldn’t language be as precise as we can make it?
Apologies to all if, by making this point, I–in any way–appeared to diminsh the vital content of the article.

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