The Power of Synergy in your Stroke Survivor’s Rehab.

Synergy - A” buzz” word of the 80’s business world, along with other jargon du jour became cliché however it is a term that I adopted into the lexicon of my everyday business dealings and more recently to a certain extent my personal life.

Synergy is defined as”-the interaction or cooperation of two or more activities, to produce a combined effect/result greater than the sum of their separate effects”.

In plain English, Synergy means to me the linking of several related or unrelated tasks that will upon completion produce a result greater than the sum of their separate or independent effects.

No more was the value and strength of this effect more visible that within the parameters of my rehab plan following my stroke in 2016.

Activities such as physiotherapy, the involvement of dieticians, Occupational Therapists, “the dress group were all individual functions, but were to an extent appeared to be unrelated tasks.

But

The Synergy of all these tasks in a co-ordinated mode against a common objective \{my recovery/ rehab\} resulted in me walking out and embarking on my Recovery journey and being the person, I am today!!

Note to Clinicians.

Ensure that there is real synergy in the recovery/rehab plans you develop for Stroke Survivors-Then inform your Survivors.

Note to Stroke Survivors.

-Ask your clinician to outline the synergy of all elements in your recovery/rehab plan- then you will know why you are being asked to do a myriad of seemly unrelated recovery tasks

Get Cracking-Both of You – Ensure that there is Synergy in the Rehab Plan!!

Brian A Beh,

Stroke Survivor, Life Member of the Hopalong Cassidy Fan Club

Poet, Philosopher and Child of the Cosmos.

Winner- “Improving Life After Stroke “Category.

Stroke Foundation of Australia National 2021 Awards.