The brain attack or the Stroke

[green1706]

A stroke is a medical emergency. Strokes happen when blood flow to your brain stops. Within minutes, brain cells begin to die. There are two kinds of stroke. The more common kind, called ischemic stroke, is caused by a blood clot that blocks or plugs a blood vessel in the brain. The other kind, called hemorrhagic stroke, is caused by a blood vessel that breaks and bleeds into the brain. "Mini-strokes" or transient ischemic attacks (TIAs), occur when the blood supply to the brain is briefly interrupted.
Symptoms of stroke are

• Sudden numbness or weakness of the face, arm or leg (especially on one side of the body)
• Sudden confusion, trouble speaking or understanding speech
• Sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes
• Sudden trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination
• Sudden severe headache with no known cause

If you have any of these symptoms, you must get to a hospital quickly to begin treatment. Acute stroke therapies try to stop a stroke while it is happening by quickly dissolving the blood clot or by stopping the bleeding. Post-stroke rehabilitation helps individuals overcome disabilities that result from stroke damage. Drug therapy with blood thinners is the most common treatment for stroke.




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[oc1dean]

For post-stroke rehabilitation make sure you get a complete and specific diagnosis of what the damaged areas are and what functions they controlled. For best results make sure you find out what area of your brain the penumbra covered. This is all necessary so you will be able to compare your damage to others. Do not accept that all stroke recoveries are different, that is the lazy way out to not do the research necessary.

[gcoe]

green1706

I am sure you are giving good information to the public but this is a site for physical therapists who are highly trained in neurological therapy. Stroke is the most common condition seen by neurological physical therapists so they hardly need telling what a stroke is and some basic medical management