Has anyone on here had to do physical rehabilitation? I had a

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Has anyone on here had to do physical rehabilitation? I had a hemorrhagic stroke about two years ago which paralysed the right side of my body. My arm is fine now but my leg is still pretty weak. I can walk on it, but I need to wear a brace because I still have foot drop, I can't lift my foot up as my leg swings forward.

I've been to physical therapists many times, but I'm not really making any progress with them. They seem to just try and teach compensation techniques without any real strategy for how to actually get better in the long term. Maybe there are good ones out there but I can't seem to find any that actually give me any hope for realistically getting better.

I know I'm supposed to try and get better on my own but it's really hard to even know where to start. I literally cannot spin my ankle around. If I tried to walk normally my toes would drag and I would fall over, so I have to swing my leg up higher than normal. My adductor muscles on my right side are sore almost all the time, and I'm pretty sure it's because it's compensating for various anterior muscles.

I have exercises that I do for rehabilitation in my own time, mostly walking, squats, leg presses, but I've just been making little to no progress and I'm worried I'm just going. I've got an electrical stimulation device but it's hard to know if I'm ever using it correctly since it can tense my foot muscles up but doesn't seem to do much for the rest of the leg muscles.

Anyways, anyone else been through this sort of thing?