StrokeStrong
A daily log for family caregivers of a stroke survivor — so the slow, uneven work of rehabilitation at home becomes something you can actually see across months and years.
1 Cramer, S. C. (2008). Repairing the human brain after stroke: I. Mechanisms of spontaneous recovery. Most measurable motor and functional recovery after stroke occurs in the first 3–6 months, but neuroplastic gains and functional improvement can continue for months and years with ongoing rehabilitation.
The problem
You are running rehab in your living room. You are the one cueing speech practice, watching for another TIA, checking the meds, listening to the therapist's instructions, and holding the hand that still shakes at the dinner table. You're also the one who lives with the survivor every hour — which is exactly why the small daily gains have stopped registering.
When you can't see the arc of recovery, it becomes easy to quietly give up on exercises that are working, to mistake plateaus for the end, and to arrive at the next rehab review with a story that doesn't match the data. The caregiver who is doing the daily work deserves a picture of the whole month, not just the hardest hour of it.
Post-stroke recovery happens in centimetres. A cleaner word. A steadier step. A slightly stronger grip on the handrail. A quieter mood in the afternoon. Day to day it blurs. Over months the arc is still real.
The Timeline turns your daily check-ins into a trend line across weeks and months. You'll see whether motor, speech, mood and caregiver load are moving in the direction you hoped — a picture the rehab team can use, and one you can trust on the days you've lost your own.
You're running speech practice, physio homework, medication timing, sleep protection, cognitive cueing and your own coping. When a good week happens, you don't know which piece made the difference.
The Pattern Engine cross-references your daily entries to reveal which inputs correlate with better days. Example insights might look like "speech clarity is higher the day after a rest day" or "mood dips on days following poor sleep" — drawn from your own logs.
Irritability, short temper, flat mood, emotional lability — these are common after a stroke, and they are injury effects, not personality. Holding that in mind mid-conversation is almost impossible without help.
Perspective Shift cards deliver short, research-backed reframes grounded in the stroke recovery literature. Each card pairs what you're feeling with what researchers and clinicians say about post-stroke mood, cognition, behaviour and the long, uneven shape of real recovery.
Stroke caregivers already live in spreadsheets and reminders. Anything that adds more will be abandoned. The daily check-in is 30 seconds. A few sliders, an optional note, done.
The Daily Log is designed for caregivers running on empty. Rate a few dimensions — motor, speech, mood, your own load — and move on. Those 30 seconds power the Timeline, the Patterns, and the clear picture you can bring to the next rehab review or neurology visit.
Fast enough to do after a hard night. That's how trends get built.
Built on the stroke recovery literature, not cure narratives.
All data stays on your device. No accounts, no servers, no analytics.
StrokeStrong is for the family caregiver running rehab in the living room every day — the person whose work the clinic only sees for an hour at a time.
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