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The effects of stroke can be frightening and may include weakness, confusion, vision problems, speech difficulties, trouble walking, loss of balance, incoordination, and impaired communication to name a few.Disability from stroke negatively impacts the lives of patients and caregivers, and survivors ...
Physical therapy is designed to improve a person's strength, gross coordination, and balance. This type of rehabilitation helps people, after their stroke, regain their ability to walk and do other things like using stairs or getting out of a chair. Regaining fine motor skills like buttoning a...
rehabilitation therapy areas are speech, physical and occupational. The treatment of vision loss has remained a big unaddressed issue. NovaVision focuses on this critical missing therapy area, and provides a range of vision compensation and restoration therapy offerings for both patients and medical ...
to learn the signs and symptoms of a stroke and get help quickly: B is for balance –a sudden loss of balance E is for eyes –vision loss in one or both eyes F stands for face –an uneven smile or weakness in the face A means arm –weakness in one arm S is for speech –...
After stroke recovery, coping, treatment, and prevention are likely to remain an ongoing part of your life. Rehabilitation and Coping Your life may change significantly after a stroke. The effects of a stroke vary widely. For example, a stroke can cause loss of peripheral vision, weakness on ...
Mixed reality glasses can give 'the whole world back' to people with partial vision loss It took Glenn Calverley a while to figure out he was having a stroke. It just felt like a really bad headache that wouldn't go away. But then he noticed his vision had changed dramatically and he...
"Up to recently, there was very little treatment available to restore vision loss in this population," said Romano, noting that while stroke and TBI patients regain some vision on their own, "very few regain it completely." Blindness among these patients usually stems frominjuryto the back of...
If the stroke occurs in the right side of the brain, the left side of the body will be affected. In that case, additional symptoms may include vision problems and memory loss. In addition, if the stroke occurs in the brain stem, or the central trunk of the brain, a person may be le...
The words BE FAST can help you remember and recognize warning signs of a stroke:B = Balance: Sudden loss of balance E = Eyes: Loss of vision in one or both eyes F = Face: Face droops on one side A = Arms: Arm drops when both arms are raised S = Speech: Speech is slurred or...