Routine builds skill and confidence. Use a Rehab tracking app or daily progress charts.

It boosts recovery, brain rewiring, and strength. Try starting with supervised sessions 3 times a week.

Bedsores after stroke is a serious problem. With proper knowledge and care, it can be avoided.

In June 2020, The Lancet Neurology published a very important Declaration proclaimed by the World Stroke Organization (WSO) on stroke and dementia. The WSO predicts that by 2050, about 200 million stroke survivors will be in the world. And because of the close link between stroke and dementia, we could expect about 106 million living with dementia; and, thereafter, each year, we may encounter over 30 million new stroke patients. The most notable statement, to me, in their declaration, is this: The current strategies to address risk factors for heart diseases and stroke are not sufficiently effective. World Stroke Organization,…

seek emergency care within the first hour of symptom onset

Marguerite Blais

It is good news; until 2018, we knew that neurosurgeons can salvage living neurons only if they remove the clot within six hours of the block. Now, we know it is not so. They can go ahead with the operation if a patient is ready for the surgery even after six hours. About the study This finding was published in the The New England of Journal of Medicine in 2018. An eminent group of US researchers conducted this study recruiting stroke patients from 32 stroke centres; so, it was a multi-centre study. They compared recovery levels of two groups of…

American Heart and Stroke Associations promote use of tPA although not all emergency physicians do not adhere to the practice.

Find all about useful and practical evidence-based info about canes.

Imagine the following trail of events: You start to observe or more F.A.S.T. stroke symptoms and signs in a person; you call an ambulance; emergency responders arrive at the scene; they determine of a stroke; they rush the person to a stroke unit; the person is treated with a blot clot-dissolving medication.  If all these events occur within the first hour from the time of detection, that is the golden hour. What is the “golden hour”? The “golden hour” of a stroke refers to the first hour after the onset of stroke symptoms. This term highlights the importance of recognizing the…