Resources Canadian best practices guidelines If you have more guidelines, manuals, and other resources related to exercises for stroke, please send us. Clinicians’ handbook US resources E-learning resources

The American Heart Association and the American Medical Association promotes measuring our blood pressure at home.

Workplace wellness programs not only detect those at risk of getting a stroke and coronary heart disease but prevent occurrence also. Overall, these interventions promote general well-being. As a general measure, the strategy is one of the cost-effective interventions of health promotion. How? Employees spend most of their time in the workplace throughout the most productive period of their lives. Carrying out wellness programs yield many dividends not only to themselves but employers and society at large also. The program managers too can save their valuable time, money, and limited resources because the workplaces gather apparently healthier individuals into one…

In your post-stroke recovery journey, experts say to blend cardio exercises with muscle strength exercises

Hyperbrain This resource contains an excellent collection of learning materials from the University of Utah and the products are licensed under creative commons. Stroke prevention This European website provides a comprehensive list of resources to prevent stroke re-occurrence and promote a healthier lifestyle. I will be adding more resources with time to this post. If you, the readers of this post wish to add more useful resources, I am inviting you all to write back. Stroke This journal is a publication of the American Heart Association; some of its articles are in open access. In other words, we can read…

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,…

Bladder control research among stroke survivors is urgently needed.

seek emergency care within the first hour of symptom onset

Caregivers use diapers, pull-ups, inserts to manage urine incontinence.

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