This post curates free stroke recovery tools that help to regain movements after a stroke.

Exercise helps the brain to recover lost movements. Find out how.

Follow these six expert recommended best practices for better, faster recovery after a stroke.

An earlier post explored how stroke can disrupt bladder control. This post looks into stroke-associated bladder problems. These problems could occur due to direct damage to the brain areas that control the bladder and bladder gates. Table of contents Post-stroke bladder problems due to disruption to the brain’s bladder control routes Experts group stroke-associated bladder problems into two; The storage problems include; The voiding problems include; Pain and stress incontinence can also co-exist with the above problems. Of the two groups, storage problems seem to be the most prevalent and problematic. Nataša Bizovičar‘s 2018 review of published research recognizes frequency,…

Daily, stroke caregivers help stroke survivors wear adult diapers, pull-ups, and liners. They struggle daily if the products do not fit the survivor. We can find a variety of types and brands in the market; you need to spend your precious time and money to search for the most suitable size and then the brand. Most of the time, it becomes a trial-and-error business. This post introduces a buying guide for you. I request you to send your suggestions to improve this guide. The buying guide Guide steps Step 1: Measure the urine leakage day and night separately Our estimates…

The damaged brain begins its recovery journey in minutes after stroke. Experts group this into five phases. Find out.

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“Homunculus” refers to a small human or a “humanoid” creature. Do we have it on our brain surface? Yes, we can find a homunculus (figuratively) as a map in our brain. Not just one, in fact, we have “two little humanoids”!. This is the story behind this amazing discovery. In 1937, two brilliant scientists, Dr Wilder Penfield and Edwin Boldrey embarked on a journey to unravel the mysteries of the human brain. They were operating at McGill University, in Montreal, Canada with a mission to map the brain regions that receive sensory information from the skin and those that send…