What Is a Stroke?

I think the article was excellent, just as it was.

bundy61

4 months ago

i'm being tested for possibiliy of a mini stroke and this gives me a better understanding of what they are

Marty Fuehre­r

5 months ago

I am bothered with a pain that follows a vein from about 5 inches from the top of my left shoulder, up my neck and into my head. It stops just above my eyebrow. This pain will last anywhere from a few minutes to half an hour. My doctor has ordered two dopplers on this vein and the results have shown no abnormality. I have not experienced this now for a couple of months, where I used to have it two or three times a month.

cookier

5 months ago

u only name 2 kinds of strokes

oc1dean

5 months ago

Unless the patient has a clot-based stroke there is really nothing a bystander can do during the initial stages of a stroke. You could have a full -blown stroke in front of the best ER docs and neurologists and unless you can be treated with tPA there is NO therapy to be given. They all just wait until you wake up and tell you you had a stroke.

chinwe

5 months ago

the article is very helpful because here in Nigeria , very many people believe in the myth that stroke is an omen that occur due to spiritual attack of demons, as a result of incantation and invocation from enemies.

Dr.Know

5 months ago

Telling what one could do assuming that they are "first on the scene" would help. Description of the various symptoms between the different specific strokes would help as it would seem to me that aspirine (some recommend putting one under the stroke victims toung might improve things) might be contra-productive under certain circumstancesi.e.intercranial bleeding or aracnoid stroke, etc. I mean there "ain't a gonna be a silver billet" but certainly "for warned is for armed". What would universally improve a stroke "incidence" if one were able to intervene at the time the malady actually occured? Thank You

chinwe

5 months ago

it is very educative

chinwe

5 months ago

it is helpful because it is very educative.

cookier

over 1 year ago

My stroke was caused from high blood pressure. i had neither a bleed or a clot. So, could you talk about that rather than saying only 2 kinds of strokes............

oc1dean

over 1 year ago

cookier, You will need to read up on mental imagery which will at least start the neuroplastic changes you need to recover functionality.

cookier

over 1 year ago

I had a stroke and it was neither a clot or a bleed. Mine was caused strictly from high blood pressure. That was 3 years ago and I still do not have the use of my left arm and hand. I have had both physical and occupational therapy. Does anyone know of a mind control therapy wheras you can "will" your body to do things and control the areas of the brain to act and react?

floshow47@ya­hoo

over 1 year ago

I understand the terminology used by the nurses now.