A Sudden Paralysis
It was after a weekend in St. Augustine, Florida that Jim Olbrich had his too-close-for-comfort brush with death. That night a blood clot rushed into his brain and caused a major hemorrhagic stroke. A stroke that has left Jim walking like Frankenstein.
Jim had driven the two hours back to his home in Orlando. [...]
Did you know that having a Stroke is the third largest threat to your life?
The facts are that 500,000 - 700,000 people have a stroke each year and this number is rising much to fast. Millions of brain cells die each minute a stroke is untreated.
The American Stroke Association advises:
?Stroke is a medical emergency. Know [...]
In the U.S. around 70,000 people suffer a Stroke each year. Rehab is crucial to help the victims of Strokes cope with the effects of a Stroke and recover to a normal and healthy life.
How well a patient recovers from a Stroke depends on many factors. Minimizing brain damage during the Stroke will make Rehab [...]
All strokes damage the brain by disrupting circulation, but strokes come in multiple varieties. Because different parts of the brain are specialized to perform specific functions, symptoms produced by strokes vary according to what part of the brain was injured. In one patient the symptom might be weakness on one side of the body. In [...]
The type of stroke that results when a blood clot travels to the brain — called an ischemic stroke — is more likely to occur on days when the air contains a larger concentration of particulate matter, according to a study published online in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess [...]
Strokes affect millions of people every year and can be deadly. Some occur suddenly; some have pre-stroke warning signs. TIA?s, or transient ischemic attacks, may or may not happen prior to a stroke. During a TIA, a blood vessel going to the head or neck becomes partially occluded, and this decreases [...]
