When people hear the word stroke, they immediately go for an illness that strike a particular organ in our body and a lot of ignorant people out there opted to go to the heart, but this is a very common mistake that has been going on for awhile now.
A stroke or known to the medical community as cerebrovascular accident or CVA is a type of illness that strikes your brain due to a clot or ruptured artery that prevents or blocks the supply of oxygen and blood flow to the brain that usually resulted in brain damages and more. A clot in this matter is a blood clot which can happen to any parts of our body, if it strikes us in the heart, it’s called a myocardial infarction or simply heart attack and if it strikes in the thigh, well… I don’t know all medical terms, so let’s just say a blood clot in the thigh.
You can check if someone is having a stroke by detecting these signs:
- Sudden numbness in the face, arm and/or leg. Usually it only happens to one side of the body. It easy to check really, if you feel one side of your body feeling numb, just try to smile and look at your reflection in the mirror, if your smile is crooked, then you are having a stroke.
- Difficulty in speaking, loss of fluency in speaking, usually slurring.
- Cognitive problem. Lost of thoughts and/or problem solving.
- Trouble in Balancing oneself.
- Dizziness
- Blurred, Double vision or blind in one eye.
- Severe headache.
- Unconsciousness
A friend of mine taught me how to detect a stroke in progress, is that you have to do a fast mnemonic, by that I mean break down each letter on fast mnemonic, for instance f is for food, a is for asylum and so on and so forth. If you’re slurring when you do this and having problem coming up with a word and plus the crooked smile I said before then you are having a stroke.
After a stroke occurs, then it’s time for rehabilitation to take care and help the stroke patients to gain their strength, ability to walk, speak and any related post stroke symptoms. A few information about Stroke Rehabilitation are as follow:
- The methods in weaving back a stroke patient consist of muscle and motion strengthening exercises, Neurodevelopmental training also known as the Bobath technique, Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation, Brunnstrom technique and Rood technique.
- Some of the approach to motor learning due to motor deficit function consists of constraint induced movement therapy, partial weigh support treadmill training.
- Special drugs are needed in stroke rehabilitation depending on how severe is the aftermath.
- Speech and communication repair are available, but that depends on the type of speech impairment suffered by the patients, which are: Aphasia (inability to understand language), Communication deficit, Apraxia (inability to control certain movement and that includes communication skills), Dysarthia (inability or difficulty in articulating, usually caused by a damaged muscle).
- Rehabilitation on vision, sensory and perceptual disorders post stroke.
Rehabilitation of Stroke Victim consists of Hospital programs (it’s like a inpatient program like for drug addict), Long Term and Nursing Care, Outpatient therapy and home-based programs.
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