{"id":119862,"date":"2016-12-07T11:57:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T16:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=119862"},"modified":"2016-12-07T11:57:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T16:57:38","slug":"stroke-survivor-strums-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2016\/12\/stroke-survivor-strums-guitar\/","title":{"rendered":"Stroke Survivor Strums Guitar Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Stroke Survivor Regains Ability to Play Guitar\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gsu-87X6Cds?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When a stroke limited Bruce Cleinman\u2019s use of his left arm and hand, one of his biggest concerns was he wouldn\u2019t be able to play guitar anymore. \u201cIt would be like losing a good friend,\u201d he said. But he followed the recovery plan Dr. Sanjay Mittal, medical director of the UConn Health Stroke Program, customized for him. In a matter of weeks he was regaining function of his left hand\u2014to the point where he had a surprise for the following month\u2019s Stroke Survivor Group at UConn Health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a stroke limited Bruce Cleinman\u2019s use of his left arm and hand, one of his biggest concerns was he wouldn\u2019t be able to play guitar anymore. But he followed the recovery plan of the UConn Health Stroke Program, customized for him. In a matter of weeks he was strumming his guitar again.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":119863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1868],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1867],"class_list":["post-119862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meds"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 07:55:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/119863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119862"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=119862"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=119862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}