A Simplified Guide to Occupational Therapy for Strokes
Occupational therapy is an essential step along the road to recovery after a stroke. Patients who lose the capacity to perform daily tasks, such as the ability to maintain balance,...
Use it or Lose it: The Importance of Cortical Plasticity in Stroke Rehabilitation
Those who have survived a stroke may experience neurological damage that leads to deficiencies in their sensory and motor systems, such as limited use in their hands and/or arms. This...
Traditional & Innovative Treatments For Strokes
Medical treatments save lives. Stroke victims who seek immediate treatment have the best chance to survive and eventually recover. But non-fatal strokes often have long-term debilitating consequences. Patients may require...
Tried and True Solutions For Stroke Pain Management
After stroke, loss of mobility isn't the only long-term problem that prevents survivors from resuming normal activities. Post-stroke pain affects more than half of all stroke survivors. In some cases,...
A Simplified Guide To Rehabilitation Nursing For Strokes
A Simplified Guide To Rehabilitation Nursing For StrokesRehabilitation is a crucial part of stroke recovery, and rehabilitation nursing can be one of the best services to enlist in recovering from...
Gravity: Stroke Recovery's Worst Enemy
Stroke is one of the leading causes of death in the United States, but when stroke doesn't claim lives, it changes them forever. Loss of blood – and, therefore, oxygen...
Stroke Recovery: Problems and Solutions
There is a lot of frustration among stroke survivors about “the system" when it comes to stroke recovery and rehab efforts after stroke. Most of the complaints revolve around three...
Stroke Rehab vs. Stroke Recovery
By Peter G LevineFirst, let’s distinguish the differences between stroke rehab and stroke recovery because they are two distinct terms. Stroke Rehab... requires a rehab clinician. falls under the rules of managed...
Specialist Services for Stroke Rehabilitation
Specialist Services for Stroke RehabilitationStrokes can change the way people live their lives forever. Because the brain controls all of the body's movements, brain damage often manifests as loss of...
The Importance of Salience in Stroke
The Importance of Salience in StrokeBrain plasticity, or neuroplasticity, is the substrate of most recovery from stroke. One of the most fundamental drivers of cortical rewiring in stroke survivors is...
The Missing Measurement In Stroke Recovery
Measuring progress towards stroke recovery is essential. Progress can be slow and difficult to see unless it is specifically measured. By not measuring progress, survivors can appear to to plateauing,...
Which Recovers First After A Stroke, The Arm or The Leg?
Which Recovers First After A Stroke - The Arm or The Leg? By Peter G Levine"Which comes back first after a stroke, the arm or the leg?" First-year OT and...