This superb graph created by ARNI supporter Professor Peter Langhorne for his excellent journal article in The Lancet (also shown in Dr Balchin’ ‘Had a Stroke’, Now What’) shows that a fixed therapeutic time window of 3/6 months doesn’t necessarily exist – this is proof that you can show all the naysayers.
This is ‘hope in a graph’ as far as I’m concerned – it means that there is no real “end” to recovery and that you CAN continue to recover and do better in terms of action control after many years have passed as long as you continue to stretch to keep muscles long/pliable, do as many ADLs as possible and do at least one ‘Rehabby Hobby’ as Dr Tom calls it.
His main intensive ‘rehabby hobby’ was DJing. You can read about exactly how he used this in ‘Had a Stroke’, Now What’ and can get ideas about other hobbies which challenge the paretic upper limb to the max 