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Stroke Recovery Fact Sheets

• Stroke Facts
• How to prevent a stroke
• Time is Critical Recognize the Signs of  Stroke
• Aphasia, Communication and Stroke
• Emotional and Behavioural Changes after Stroke
• Help for Caregivers
• Sexuality and Stroke
• Stroke is an Emergency
• The Impact of Stroke upon the Family
• What is Stroke?
• Stroke Recovery You are not Alone
• Post-Stroke Spasticity What You and Your Doctor Need to Know
• Post-Stroke Spasticity Made Simple
• Getting the Most from Your Medications after a Stroke
• Depression and Stroke
• Stroke Recovery and Exercise
• Nutrition for Stroke Survivors
• Women and Stroke
• How to prevent the next stroke (Downloadable PDF)
• A Patients Guide to Stroke Recovery (Downloadable PDF)
• A Caregiver's guide to Stroke Recovery. (Downloadable PDF)
• Peer Support and Support Groups

Stroke Recovery Health Articles

Acute Stroke

• Sonothrombolysis in acute ischemic stroke for patients ineligible for rt-PA
• FDA Approves First-of-Kind Device to Treat Descending Thoracic Aneurysms
• Aspirin safer than warfarin and as effective for blocked arteries in the brain treatment
• Advances in the treatment of hemorrhagic stroke: A possible new treatment
• Are Lacunar Strokes Really Different? A Systematic Review of Differences in Risk Factor Profiles Between Lacunar and Nonlacunar Infarcts
• Mechanical Thrombectomy for Acute Stroke
• Management of Acute Cerebellar Stroke
• Apo(a) size in ischemic stroke - Relation with subtype and severity on hospital admission
• Services for reducing duration of hospital care for acute stroke patients (Cochrane Review)

Aphasia

• Functional MRI Follow-Up Study of Language Processes in Healthy Subjects and During Recovery in a Case of Aphasia

Caregiver

• Depression Amoung Caregivers of Stroke Survivors
• Determinants of Quality of Life in Stroke Survivors and Their Informal Caregivers

Children and Stroke

• Childhood Stroke Awareness Campaign
• Information on Prenatal Stroke, Infant Stroke, Perinatal Stroke, Neonatal Stroke, In Utero Stroke, Fetal Stroke, Stroke in Children, and Young Adult Stroke
• A Pediatric Stroke Network Educational Page
• Information on Childhood and Infant Stroke
• Pediatric Stroke Research Project

Stroke Risk 

• Migraine, headache, and the risk of stroke in women
• Impact of Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome on Risk Factors in African American Stroke Survivors
• Blood Pressure Control and Risk of Stroke, A Population-Based Prospective Cohort Study
• Kids and High Blood Pressure
• New Study Gets at the Heart of Stroke Risk
• Accupuncture Cuts Blood Pressure
• Higher Burden of Hemorrhagic Stroke among Women
• Two-Part Blood Pressure Control Suggests New Approach to Hypertension Therapy
• African Americans disproportionately faced with stroke
• Therapy for Older Patients with Hypertension
• Drug Can Reduce Bodyweight and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Obese People
• Risk of Hemorrhagic Stroke in Asian American Ethnic Groups
• Prospective Study of Body Mass Index and Risk of Stroke in Apparently Healthy Women

Oral Health and Stroke

• American Academy of Periodontology
• Centre for Disease Control, Division of Oral Health

Secondary Stroke

• Researchers discover molecule that causes secondary stroke
• Efficacy of Aspirin Plus Extended-Release Dipyridamole in Preventing Recurrent Stroke in High-Risk Populations
• Aspirin hiatus triples recurrent stroke risk in 1 month
• Warfarin underperforms in preventing stroke in 'real world'
• Effects of aspirin, clopidogrel and dipyridamole administered singly and in combination on platelet and leucocyte function in normal volunteers and patients with prior ischaemic stroke
• ARB outperforms calcium antagonist in secondary stroke prevention
• Adding aspirin to clopidogrel after TIA and ischemic stroke

Stroke Care

• What happens when your muscles involuntarily seize Up? Understanding and dealing with spasticity (type 21604 to log in)
• Sex Differences in Stroke Care and Outcomes,Results From the Registry of the Canadian Stroke Network
• The sensitivity of somatic symptoms in post-stroke depression: a discriminant analytic approach
• Pelvic floor muscle training is effective in women with urinary incontinence after stroke: A randomised, controlled and blinded study
• Major depression as a risk factor for early institutionalization of dementia patients living in the community
• Cheyne-Stokes Respiration in Stroke Relationship to Hypocapnia and Occult Cardiac Dysfunction

Stroke Rehabilitation

• Ozone Therapy on Cerebral Blood Flow: A Preliminary Report
• Viagra Used in Stroke Recovery Study
• Functional reorganization of the cerebral motor system after stroke.
• Ultrasound Improves Stroke Recovery
• Brisk Walks Speed Stroke Recovery
• Early Treatment Confirmed as Key to Stroke Recovery
• Rehabilitation after Stroke
• A comparison of patient characteristics and rehabilitation treatment content of chronic low back pain (CLBP) and stroke patients across six European countries*1
• Robotic Arm Could Help Stroke Survivors Regain Range Of Motion
• Kinetic and kinematic workspaces of the index finger following stroke
• Persistence of Congenital Mirror Movements after Hemiplegic Stroke

Transient Ischemic Attack - TIA

• Transient ischemic attack with infarction: A unique syndrome?
• TIA patients receive less attention than those with stroke

Stroke Survivors Success Stories

Links

• www.stroke-education.com

  Stroke Recovery Canada has very recently learned of this education tool. Our health care advisors will be reviewing shortly, because of this, Stroke Recovery Canada does not yet endorse this product but provide you with this information and link to the product.

  "Stroke Education Ltd has developed new tools to aid stroke prevention and recovery. A new series of video's in DVD format is now available. For the first time learning and instruction on stroke caring and rehabilitation is available in visual form that makes it so much easier for stroke survivors and their family caregivers. Developed by stroke authorities no medical or special medical training is needed to use the DVDs. The three DVDs show exactly how to manage everyday needs and provide practical demonstrations or exercises and other techniques to improve the quality of life of stroke survivors and their family caregivers."

• www.icommunicatetherapy.com

World's biggest speech therapy website of
*free* information and resources for parents and speech therapists. You will find a Forum, videos, a News and Media Section, amongst many
resources.

• Stroke Heroes Act Fast