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Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation

Welcome and an introduction to our stroke section Welcome and an introduction to our support and information for those affected by stroke conditions.

EMS: stroke victims delaying calls for help WPBF’s Wakisha Bailey has the details. Subscribe to WPBF on YouTube now for more: http://bit.ly/1qfxvbX Get more West Palm Beach news: http://www.wpbf.com Like us: http://www.facebook.com/wpbf25news Follow us: http://twitter.com/WPBF25News Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wpbf25news/

UCL helps stroke victims learn to read again UCL has launched an online tool to help people whose sight has been damaged by stroke to learn to read again. A medical and technological collaboration between the UCL Institute of Neurology and UCL’s Multimedia team has developed ‘Read Right’, a therapeutic website designed to help people…

Genise Meets Katie who Had a Stroke Aged 6 💙💚 #ChildhoodStroke There are over 400 childhood strokes a year in the UK. 💙 Katie had a stroke aged 6. Now aged 31, she shares her experiences growing up as a survivor and how she is coping with lockdown in a zoom chat with Genise, our…

Breakthrough Stem Cell Treatment Gives Stroke Victims Stunning Recovery Stroke victims in the Bay Area are seeing incredible recoveries, some literally overnight, thanks to a new kind of stem cell treatment at Stanford University. Emily Turner reports. (6/1/16)

Virtual Help at Hospital Can Be Brain-Saver for Stroke Victims May 26, 2016 – “Time is brain,” when it comes to identifying and treating stroke symptoms, according to Dr. Rochelle Sweis, a Neurologist and Telestroke Director at Loyola University Medical Center. QC Online reports on the latest in telehealth. To watch more videos and to…

NEW TECHNOLOGY IS HELPING STROKE VICTIMS IT MAPS YOUR BRAIN AND HELPS DOCTORS FIGURE OUT IF YOU CAN BENEFIT FROM LIFE-SAVING MEDICATION.

First-aid for Stroke Victims Before Treatment Stroke is one of diseases affecting many people; in fact, it is one of the four deadly killers today. According to the Medical News Today website, during a stroke, the brain does not receive enough oxygen or nutrients, causing brain cells to die. There are three main kinds of…

Stroke Rehabilitation: A Personal Story of Recovery As the Director of Outpatient Cardiac Rehab at Helen Hayes Hospital, Steven Lichtman, Ed.D., was well versed on the topic of stroke. Yet recognizing its signs, and going through months of rehabilitation, were a challenge even for him. During this 20-minute presentation to current stroke patients, he delves…