Recovery after strokestarts with making goals with your physical, social, and emotional aspects of your life. You will make changes to your life to prevent additional strokes along with focusing on life long recovery. Patients and caregivers will have to understand that the recovery is slow and ...
Acupuncture also may help reduce the frequency of tension headaches and prevent migraine headaches. Therefore, acupuncture appears to be a reasonable option for people with chronic pain to consider. However, clinical practice guidelines are inconsistent in recommendations about acupuncture. The effects of ...
In order to treat spasticity in a more permanent way, one would have to retrain the brain in order to prevent miscommunication from the brain to the hand. Reorganization of surviving central nervous system elements supports behavioral recovery. Stroke survivors can rewire the pathways in the brain....
Early walking is an important aim of stroke rehabilitation for many reasons including the psychological well-being of the patient, to prevent loss of cardiovascular fitness or the development of secondary musculoskeletal problems. This study questions whether canes are the optimal walking aid to enable...
Hemiplegia can often be caused by stroke. What might happen to the spinal cord cause it? How does the larynx prevent food from entering the airway when swallowing? Describe the clinical condition Bell's palsy. What systems does spina bifida effect? (a) What is a bell's p...
Hemiplegia can often be caused by stroke. What might happen to the spinal cord cause it? Explain Duchenne muscular dystrophy. How is it caused and what is its effect on muscles? What can you do to offset the accumulative effects of sympathetic nervous syst...