What do you do when rehab ends but your brother still can't be understood - and nobody offers you a single tool to help?

Robert Schmidtbauer is a care partner from Tomahawk, Wisconsin. His younger brother lives with ataxia, and a stroke six years ago made his speech so unclear that strangers understand only 60–70% of what he says. After years of being the "go-between," Robert used AI to build Larry's Speakeasy, a simple $9 aphasia communication app that types or taps and speaks out loud.

A doctor ran a reflex test and told the patient they would never walk again. That same day, a physical therapist walked in, and the patient walked 70 feet.

Dr. Kory Langwell is a Doctor of Physical Therapy with over 15 years of experience helping stroke survivors recover at home and online. In this episode, we break down what physical therapists know about walking after stroke that most doctors don't, including why the therapy gap after hospital discharge stalls so many survivors, what the "plateau" label really means, and how to keep making progress years or even decades post-stroke.

What if falling after a stroke wasn't something you just had to accept?

Associate Professor Kate Scrivener is a stroke rehabilitation researcher at Macquarie University whose work is rewriting what we know about falls, walking, and long-term recovery.

In this episode, Bill and Kate revisit her HiWalk study, a high-dose walking program showing real results for chronic stroke survivors, and dive into her new systematic review on exercise-based falls prevention published in 2026.