Gareth Voss

I was forty-four when a stroke shut down the left side of my body between one cup of coffee and the next. The emergency care was fast and excellent. What came afterwards, the long grind of getting a body to work again, was where I was left mostly to work things out for myself.

The questions I could not get answered were the practical ones. How much therapy is enough. Why my physiotherapist cared so much about the number of repetitions. Whether the plateau everyone warned me about was real or just the point where the funding ran out. What the difference was between the exercises that rebuild a movement and the ones that just tire you out. I ended up reading research papers at night because the leaflets said nothing.

Brain Rehab Fitness is where I put what I found, in plain language, alongside what my own recovery actually taught me. A consultant in rehabilitation medicine fact-checks the clinical side before it goes up. I am not a clinician. I am someone a couple of years down the road, and I would rather you spent your energy on the work than on the searching I had to do.