Tracy L Markley

In "Stroke Recovery; What Now? When Physical Therapy Ends but Your Recovery Continues" Tracy brings as much knowledge and experience as she can, with hope to help survivors continue with their personal stroke recovery.She teaches about the biomechanics of the body's movements based on science. Tracy has helped several survivors achieve continued success in their stroke recovery. In "Stroke Recovery; What Now?" Tracy's desire is to bring understanding to why specific muscles must be strengthened before other movements in the body can improve. Included in this book, are several important exercises for survivors and anyone who wants to become more stable when they stand and walk. There are also descriptions of why each exercise works.Tracy shares knowledge, tips, and exercises to help: Improve a Drop foot.Spasticity.Muscle strength.Balance and Posture.Being and Feeling Safer in MovementsStanding and StabilizationSpatial Awareness and ProprioceptionCognitive SkillsBrain care and more.Tracy asked more than one hundred survivors about the struggles and challenges they faced when they were left on their own to continue their recovery. She was surprised by many of the tough challenges some faced, and she was determined to include all concerns in this book Stroke Recovery; What Now? There is no period in stroke recovery. Learning ways to help your brain build new pathways and helping your body move correctly will assist you toward further recovery. You will also learn what a stroke is and descriptions of different types of strokes. AWARD WINNING BOOK Gold Medal - Reader Views - Readers' Choice Award 2022-2023

In Tipping Toward Balance, A Fitness Trainers Guide to Stability and Walking, Tracy shares eight exercises and the reasons why these specific exercises have helped clients regain their balance. As we age, specific injuries, and some diagnosis can cause someone to feel unbalanced, weak, and/or unstable in their walking gait. This leaves many prone to falls. Training the body and doing exercises that strengthen the correct muscles, proprioception and spatial awareness is Fall Prevention. Tracy shares eight specific exercises that have helped clients stop tripping and falling and to regain the ability to feel safe in movement again. In Tipping Toward balance Tracy shares some short stories of clients who all have assorted reasons for losing their balance and feeling unsafe in their daily footsteps.In this book you will gain knowledge and learn exercises and tips to help you: Feel safe walkingAvoid fallsRegain and strengthen your spatial awarenessHelp people at any age, including kids, not to lose their balance system strengthSee muscle illustrations to help you understand the essential muscles to be strengthenedYou do not have to exercise on the floor to strengthen your core. Learn how.And moreA range of personal and specific factors may play a role in the body's balance and walking gait as they become off-kilter. This leaves people feeling unsafe in their movements, which, in turn, causes the walking gait to change and slow down because they feel out of balance or unstable. At this point, individuals may find themselves tripping often and/or falling down. At any age, but often as we get older, the body can become weaker. That can be due to illness, lack of exercise, neurological challenges, or a diagnosed condition. In many of these cases, the body begins to move more slowly. You can feel unsafe in everyday movements, even just walking.The center of the body, known as the core, must be built up in strength for the rest of the body to be able to perform movements at their best. Frequently, building core strength is thought to be achievable only when you get down on the floor and do crunches. Many clients with weakness or stability issues do not feel safe getting down to the floor. Consequently, that leaves them thinking it is a lost cause to attempt to strengthen the core muscles. Thankfully, this is not the truth. AWARD WINNING BOOK American Bood Fest - Best Book Award Finalist - 3rd Place in Health/Aging 50+ catagory

The Stroke of an Artist is an inspiring journey of a personal trainer and a stroke survivor.Gary was an Artist who had a stroke. Tracy was a fitness trainer at the gym near his home. They met one day as he approached her in the gym using his walker. He was six months post stroke at the time. He had his sister, brother-in-law, and his neighbor by his side. It was powerful and special meeting. Tracy knew at that moment this was going to be a powerful journey, and it was.Gary trained with Tracy for almost three years. From early on in his training, he told Tracy he wants his story of training with her as hi personal trainer shared to help other stroke survivors and their caregivers, family, and friends. He would often stop in a middle of a workout and say, "Don't every have a stroke they suck." One day Tracy responded by saying "We need to write a book and call it Dear Stroke You Suck." Shortly before the book was published, the title of the book was changed to The Stroke of and Artist.This book Dear Stroke You Suck, The Journey of a Fitness Trainer and A Stroke Survivor is the Stroke of an Artist Book republished with the original book title we planned. Both book titles are available here on Amazon.In most cases, physical therapy for stroke recovery is not nearly enough for a survivor to reach the most recovery they can attain. In this book, Tracy shares what she learned through this special journey training Gary in his stroke recovery after his physical therapy session ended. With Tracy's education and experience in the fitness industry, the muscle illustrations, and exercise explanations, we hope to bring knowledge, ideas, and hope to stroke survivors as well as fitness professionals to help them understand and learn more about working with survivors in recovery.