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Free stroke recovery apps to regain movements
This post curates free stroke recovery tools that help to regain movements after a stroke.
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Games like card play help arm/hand stroke recovery
This is great news! Playing cards, dominos, bingo, Jenga, and ball games will help to regain arm and hand recovery. There is another important finding here; its gains are similar to the gains from virtual reality games. In other words, if you live in low-resourced settings it does not really matter. Still, you can achieve…
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How exercise helps the brain in stroke recovery
Exercise helps the brain to recover lost movements. Find out how.
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Follow these guides to regain walking after a stroke
Follow these guides to help the brain to recover walking faster and better.
Movement recovery
Personal care
Recovery journey
Social support
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Cochrane reviews on urine incontinence research
Cochrane reviews about urine incontinence
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How stroke causes speech problems
Stroke can cause unique speech problems; two common ones include Broca’s aphasia and Wernike’s aphasia. This post explores those two and how stroke creates them. Let us begin with Broca’s aphasia. Broca’s aphasia This type of speech problem occurs due to a stroke attack in Broca’s area. Where is it located? Broca’s area (Figure 1) The…
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Neurons
An illustrated neuron graphic
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The neuron forest
“Neuron” by NIH-NCATS is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Our brain contains about 100 billion neurons; it looks like a neuron forest. because a neuron is more or less similar to a tree. Neurons are a special kind of cell. At one end, it sprouts a large number of very thin short threads – “dendrites”. The ends of these…
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