10 Questions to Ask After a Stroke

ilive

29 days ago

Had major stroke 9-10-2010. Got correct treatment within the "3 golden hours" and walked out of the hospital 8 weeks later. Time--treatment--toughness all necesary for recovery.

Please add Neuro Ophthalmic Rehabilitation to your list of therapy help for stroke survivors. Many health care providers are not aware that almost every stroke survivor has difficulty with spatial relationships, dipolpia, visual convergence, visual inattention and visual field loss - to name only a few issues. Health care providers do not associate problems with gait, reading, balance or attention to details, for example, as brain processing issues corrected with vision therapy. Vision is our dominant sense and the visual system is integrated with the neurological system. Correcting visual disturbances immediately following a stroke can have a significant impact on the other therapies - delaying this help can cause more problems later and at the very least significantly slow the recovery. Vision therapy is not directed at correcting refractive errors, by simply getting new glasses, but rather correcting post trauma vision syndromes, management of visual and neurological symptoms, and correcting dysfunction of the ambient visual process.

alloa

5 months ago

that there is so much more help out there than I could have imagined. Thank you so much.

alloa

5 months ago

Having had a mild stroke and both parents having died of strokes, I am constantly worried, not just for myself but for my husband, daughter, son and grandson. I would hate for them to go through the agony I did with the instnt death of my own parents

Emily M.

8 months ago

Hi zed_carzidea­, Thank you for your question. Here is an article about how strokes are diagnosed which may help to answer your question: ( http://www.caring.com/articles/stroke-diagnosis ). I hope that helps. Take care -- Emily | Community Manager

zed_carzidea­

8 months ago

I'd like to ask a question : How do we know that it is a mild stroke? Do we realised by ourselves (of a mild stroke) or who confirms?

zed_carzidea­

8 months ago

10 questions meant a 1000. it is a test of courage to accept a fact that life has changed NOW! it is YOU and not the one who's paralysed. Face it, it's how much can you devote your time to them...

llmc d

8 months ago

Ihad my stroke and rehab 6 months ago - sovar it went well but i need to get back to work an am aggitated an anxious fof I have to be back to work in two months and I dont feel ready yet???

Allisonb

9 months ago

after a stroke, is it normal to have lots of pain on the stroke side

The list of questions that I would call "OK, what now?" The reason I say that is after having a serious stroke at 60, and "recovering" in the hospital for about a week, they said, OK you are ready to go home, and, BTW you probably need to get some therapy, you can get that across the street. No one made any attempt to understand my goals (basically get back to work), or assess my deficiencies related to my job skills, so we just floundered around, until a friend of a friend suggested I get a test by a nueropsychologist, who got me into a great brain injury clinic. I think unless you can clearly define the skills and functions you need you can waste a lot of time with inappropriate therapy. My first therapist was teaching me how to make coffee, not exactly what I needed at work.

Depressed Wi­fe

about 1 year ago

My husband was a young men who suffered a stroke due to a head injury. He lost all his senses of smell, taste to enjoy food. It has totally destroyed him. We will not even talk about sex. I just want to get him to enjoy the simple pleasure of life like eating. Is there someone who knows of any therapies or medicine that can help. My husband is young in his late 40's. I have a huge problem. He has drop leg sydrome, asphsia, atasia, his right side was effected and he was right side dominant. Can anyone advise me please. My husband is very depressed.

oc1dean

over 1 year ago

jjtm562. you probably need something like thermal stimulation. If your therapists or doctors were any good they would know this. [url]http://myweb.ncku.edu.tw/~fzshaw/ ASA.pdf[/url] researchers found that cycles of heat and cold significantly enhanced the sensory and motor function in the arms and hands of stroke survivors after a few weeks of therapy.

oc1dean

over 1 year ago

Way too general

oc1dean

over 1 year ago

How many patients has he/she seen fully recovered and what did they do to recover? This is not the ADL recovery. What has been done and still needs to be done to prevent another stroke? What area of the brain was disabled by the stroke? What functions did they cover? What type, clot or bleed? Show me a 3d map. How big was the penumbra? What areas did it affect? What clinical trials are going on right now that the patient would be a good candidate for? What treatment options have been discovered in the last 5-10 years for stroke rehabilitation? Of these options which ones are available in your clinic? This is to determine if he/she is up-to-date or if you will have to do all this research yourself. Who are the best therapists working in your clinic for stroke rehabilitation and why do you consider them to be the best? Who do I work with if depression takes hold? What books on stroke recovery do you recommend? What stroke related magazines do you recommend? What internet sites do you recommend about stroke? There are at least 15 stroke forums out there.

jjtm562

over 1 year ago

after a "mild stroke", how long will the numbness in my hand last?