Stroke Recovery

Stroke affects everybody differently, and it is difficult to say how much of a recovery is possible. Many stroke survivors experience the most dramatic recovery during their stay in hospital in the weeks after their stroke.

Strokes are not isolated to the United States. It is reported that worldwide nearly 15 million people suffer from a stroke every year (“Stoke,” n.d.). The idea of home therapy for stroke rehabilitation has appeared in other countries as well. A group of researchers in Spain looked into the effectiveness of occupational therapy for individuals affected by a stroke. They focused specifically on home based therapy. The researchers sought out occupational therapy programs which “aimed to improve the participation of the individual in significant functions, activities, and tasks” and how that translated into a home program (Ávila et al., 2014). The study included twenty-three participants who had suffered a stroke. The Barthel Index (Fig.3) was

Dr. Bolte Taylor made a list of things she needed the most from the people around her during her recovery process which can be summarized as the desire to have people support and believe in her recovery. Something that may hinder the recovery of stroke victims is the treatment itself. While it had to be Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor’s decision to recover, she was much more willing to put forth effort when her caregivers gave her direct eye contact and spoke to her gently and were generally kind people. She would tend to shut down when people seemed to be in a rush or seemed frustrated. It is also important that the people treating stroke victims know what they are capable of.

You may have questions about sexual activity after a stroke. Stroke causes physical and emotional changes. This may include physical changes that affect your ability to have sex. You may also go through emotional changes that affect your desire to have sex.

Scott Hutchinson, from MUSC Stroke Recovery Department, would like to meet to discuss programs that they offer stroke patients in the community. Scott Hutchinson, Research Administrator for the MUSC Stroke Recovery Research Department, would like to meet to discuss programs and possible opportunities that they offer stroke patients in the community.

Stroke is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. Each year more than 795,000 Americans suffer from a stroke, which means that every forty seconds someone has stroke (Liebman, 2012). Although a stroke can occur at any age, strokes are frequently seen in the older adult demographics. An increase with age doubles the risk for a stroke each decade after 55 (Grysiewicz, 2008). The percentage of stroke survivors to almost fully recover from a stroke is only 10 percent; in contrast, 40 percent of stroke survivors will face moderate to severe impairment which will entail distinctive care (Perlmutter and Colman, 2005). When all strokes are analyzed according to demography of class system, approximately 60% of strokes occur in low or middle income countries (Silverman and Rymer, 2009).

Stroke is a leading health care problem worldwide; ‘living with stroke’ is a real challenge both stroke survivors and their caregivers face.

Stroke survivors commonly experience medical complications during their rehabilitation stay. Depression, urinary tract infection, and limb pain have been reported as three of the most common complications experienced among stroke survivors (Doshi et al., 2003, McLean, 2004). The use of medical tubes (tracheostromies, enteral feeding tubes, and indwelling urinary catheters), and associated complications, are also on the increase in rehabilitation units (Roth and Lovell, 2003). (Ostwald, Sharon K., et al.,

Stroke is the third leading cause of death, and the leading cause of adult neurologic disability in Canada. After the age of 55, the risk of stroke is doubled every 10 years (Brunner & Day, 2010). Despite advances in stroke management post stroke complications occur. Nurses must focus on developing successful strategies to promote home and community based care for victims of completed stroke in order for them to resume their daily life as safely and independently as possible. Strategies must target prevention of future strokes, since a stroke survivor has a 20% chance of having another stroke within 2 years, and care management after the cerebrovascular accident. Effective strategies must be aimed at restoring patient’s independence by improving physical, mental and emotional functions. Three nursing strategies to promote this include: continuous patient education, patient and/or family goal setting, as well as providing psychosocial support to the patient’s family or primary caregiver(s). This paper will analyze why these three proposed strategies are crucial to promote home and community based care, as well as ways these strategies can be implemented in such settings in order to improve the outcome for post-stroke patients.

Cerebrovascular disease or the term stroke is used to describe the effects of an interruption of the blood supply to a localised area of the brain. It is characterized by rapid focal or global impairment of cerebral function lasting more than 24 hours or leading to death (Hatano, 1976). As such it is a clinically defined syndrome and should not be regarded as a single disease. Stroke affects 174-216 people per 10,000 population in the UK per year and accounts for 11% of all deaths in England and Wales (Mant et al, 2004). The risk of recurrent stroke within 5 years is between 30-43%. One problem is that the incidence of stroke rises steeply with age and the number of elderly people in the UK is on the increase. To date people who experience a stroke occupy around 20 per cent of all acute hospital beds and 25 per cent of long term beds (Stroke Association, 2004). The British Government now identifies stroke as a major economic burden on the National Health Service (DoH, 2002). This paper will focus on an examination of a case study to understand the human toll of a stroke and how nurses can help these patients.

If you or a loved one has had a stroke, the road to recovery can be long and difficult. However, with in-home health services, the road is made easier. There are a variety of services that can be provided to a stroke survivor in their home to make the process less difficult. The following are only a few of the important services to aid in your stroke recovery.

It is estimated that there are 62,000 strokes in Canada each year and 405,000 of the Canadian population have been living with the effects of a stroke themselves or have a close family member/friend who had suffered a stroke (Heart & Stroke Foundation, 2016). According to the Heart and Stroke Foundation (2016) 16 out of every 100 patients who has suffered a stroke without a past history of dementia, will more than likely develop dementia after their first or recurrent stroke. Working in the Integrated Stroke Unit, patients hospitalized for stroke who also have dementia required quite a lot of complex care, which is understandable, as according to the Canadian Institute for Heath Information, stroke patients with dementia are are at a much greater risk of dying than those without dementia, with a mortality rate of 20% compared to 13% for patient who only suffered a stroke (Heart and Stroke Foundation, 2016).

Stroke is cerebral injury caused by acute cerebral circulatory disorder, is a kind of serious hazard to human health and life safety of common refractory disease, which is difficult to reverse once got. There are obvious three tenors (high incidence, high morbidity, high mortality) of it. According to statistics, my country's annual 2 million stroke patients, the incidence rate is as high as 120/10, of which 4.5 million patients with different degree of disability, and the life cannot provide for oneself, the morbidity of up to 75%, 1.2 million stroke patients die each year. Has had a stroke patients, but also easy to relapse again, every recurrence, caused Tremendous risk to human health and life, with great pain to the patient and created a heavy burden to family and society.

A stroke is essentially the death of tissue in the brain as a result of loss of circulation and blood flow. It is one of the most prevalent pathologies affecting the central nervous system and is currently the second leading cause of death worldwide with ~6.2 million deaths in 2011. Approximately 800,000 people suffer a stroke every year in the United States alone. Many of these strokes are fatal, but the majority of individuals who suffer from a stroke will survive. Many of the survivors will struggle with recovery and rehabilitation following their initial stroke. Following a stroke, neurons, neuroblasts and endothelial cells collectively interact with each other as a “regenerative triad”, creating a specific environment that allows neurological recovery to take place. Developmental genetic programs are

Stroke is a major public health concern occurring on average once every 40 seconds in the United States.(AHA) Although stroke patients benefit from time-critical therapy such as tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA), providing interventions to patients within the therapeutic time frame is a challenge to small rural hospitals.1 Consequently, patients presenting to rural facilities have been found to be approximately ten times less likely to receive the therapeutic benefits of tPA than patients being treated at primary stroke centers where traditionally specialty care has only been available.2,3