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Something's Different: Personality Changes After Stroke

Stroke can change a survivor’s personality. “If our relationships are like a dance, when personality changes, when someone fundamentally changes their dance steps, that requires other family members to change their dance steps as well.”

Making the Best Decisions at Discharge After Stroke

The type of rehabilitation and support systems a survivor receives at discharge can strongly influence health outcomes and recovery. In this, the first part of a two-part series on stroke rehab, we offer guidance for the decision-making process required when it’s time to leave the hospital.

When Stroke Affects the Temporal Lobe

The temporal lobe has several functions, mainly involved with memory, perception and language.

Working on Fine Motor Skills

Fine motor skills are how we use our hands and coordinate the small muscles that control our fingers. Those skills, along with other arm functions such as reaching and grasping, can be affected by stroke. The stroke’s severity determines the extent of this weakness.

A Special Thank You

A tribute from survivors to any medical personnel who have ever worked with a stroke patient.

Helpfulness & Kindness on a Steep Path

Sometimes we find ourselves in sticky situations. A stranger’s kindness can make a big difference. It did for Richard Lambert, “I told the man that I thought God might have sent him to help me. He was wondering about that, too.”

Wandering Back

One of my passions is travel; you could say I’m a wanderer. Ever since I was a young girl, I’ve been drawn to adventure. I had been planning to visit California for the first time, but now it seemed impossible and daunting.

The Letter

Comedian and stroke survivor, John Kawie, writes a fan letter to his stroke as the 20-year anniversary of its arrival grows near.

Lilian Tsi Stielstra's Why

Walking up the stairs, she felt “pins and needles” in her left leg. A few minutes later, her left arm had the same sensation. Then the left side of her face felt numb. “I realized it was a stroke because it was all on one side,” Lilian said.

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Something's Different: Personality Changes After Stroke

Making the Best Decisions at Discharge After Stroke

When Stroke Affects the Temporal Lobe

The temporal lobe has several functions, mainly involved with memory, perception and language.

Working on Fine Motor Skills

A Special Thank You

A tribute from survivors to any medical personnel who have ever worked with a stroke patient.

Helpfulness & Kindness on a Steep Path

Wandering Back

The Letter

Comedian and stroke survivor, John Kawie, writes a fan letter to his stroke as the 20-year anniversary of its arrival grows near.

Lilian Tsi Stielstra's Why

Meds Can't Work If You Don't TakeThem

Only one in five patients seeking specialist for resistant HBP takes meds as prescribed

Male caregivers report more positives in caring for stroke survivors

Receiving a clot-buster drug before reaching the hospital may reduce stroke disability

Exercise Can Significantly Improve Brain Function After STroke

Exercise can significantly improve brain function after stroke

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Meds Can't Work If You Don't TakeThem

Only one in five patients seeking specialist for resistant HBP takes meds as prescribed

Male caregivers report more positives in caring for stroke survivors

Receiving a clot-buster drug before reaching the hospital may reduce stroke disability

Exercise Can Significantly Improve Brain Function After STroke

Exercise can significantly improve brain function after stroke

Popular heartburn medication may increase ischemic stroke risk

Short episodes of abnormal heart rhythm may not increase risk of stroke

Lowest stroke rates in older Baby Boomers; younger people rising

Hand-in-Glove Rehab

New electrical stimulation therapy may improve hand function after stroke

Cumulative Effect

Pre-stroke risk factors influence long-term future stroke, dementia risk

High Blood Pressure is a Clue

Knowing the path of a person’s blood pressure from middle age onward may help doctors better assess the health risks posed by high blood pressure and could lead to earlier interventions to prevent stroke and other diseases linked to high blood pressure

Inherited High Cholesterol Increases Risk

Patients who experience high cholesterol due to an inherited genetic disorder from one of their parents—heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia — are much more likely than those with average cholesterol levels to have diseases caused by hardening of the arteries, including an accelerated onset of coronary heart disease by up to 30 years.

Blueprint for Post-Stroke Care

New guidelines tell us that to rehabilitate a stroke patient, it takes a village — one that extends far beyond patient and physician, family and friends.

Untreated HBP significantly increases risk of bleeding stroke

Left untreated, high blood pressure (HBP) may significantly increase your risk of developing a brain bleed, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2016.

Better patient outcome linked to Get With The Guidelines-Stroke

Stroke patients at hospitals participating in a nationwide quality-improvement program were more likely to be discharged home and less likely to die after discharge than patients in non-participating hospitals, according to research in the American Heart Association’s journal Stroke.

New online directory collects reviews of stroke rehab

A new, non-biased website dedicated to assisting patients, families and health professionals with identifying appropriate neuro-rehab solutions and resources has recently launched.

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