How a British headmaster cured himself following a stroke

When school headmaster, Martin Stephen, had a stroke, he was transformed 'from a healthy, professional 56-year-old into a lump of flesh on a hospital trolley'.  He soon realised that, if he was to recover, he was going to have to rely on his own resources and, basically, cure himself. 

Together with his 74-year-old mother-in-law, Martin devised his own rehab programme - a daily regime which included bouncing a tennis ball off the kitchen floor 2,000 times and writing out the alphabet for two hours. 

Six months later, he considered himself cured.  Read how he did it in Stroke: 'I had to cure myself'.