Summary: Increasing experimental evidence suggests that cell transplantation can enhance recovery from stroke in animal models of focal cerebral ischemia. Clinical trials have been investigating the effects of a human immortalized neuronal cell line and porcine fetal neurons in stroke victims with ...
Increasing experimental evidence suggests that cell transplantation can enhance recovery from stroke in animal models of focal cerebral ischemia. Clinical trials have been investigating the effects of a human immortalized neuronal cell line and porcine fetal neurons in stroke victims with persistent and ...
When using stem cell for stroke victims, the patient’s own stem cells are harvested from abdominal fat or bone marrow, then activated and put back into the body. Donated cells from different sources (the placenta, umbilical cord, etc.) can also be used. Large numbers of introduced active ...
Understanding the scale, scope, and severity of post-stroke symptoms, and appreciating the emerging body of evidence about the most effective therapeutic protocols for stroke victims (including what treatments, exercises, and rehabilitative practices do and do not have a meaningful impact) are essential...
For more information, see Can Vision Therapy Help Stroke Victims with Double Vision? Presbyopia This is when the lenses of a person’s eyes lose the flexibility to focus on objects within arm’s length, a condition that becomes more common as people age. As the lenses lose flexibility, ...
When administered immediately prior to artery-opening procedures, Hutrukin may reduce the inflammatory injuries associated with reperfusion. No drug or treatment is currently available to reduce or prevent reperfusion injury. Hutrukin potentially represents a unique and major advan...
Studies have shown that physical contact with a pet can lower high blood pressure, and improve survival rates forheart attackvictims. There is also evidence that petting an animal can cause endorphins to be released. Endorphins are chemicals in the body that suppress thepainresponse. These are be...
For example, an unthinking description of people as ‘victims' of diseases such as multiple sclerosis, or as ‘confined’ to a wheelchair, might be intended to convey sympathy but the terms are understood by some disabled people as demeaning and disparaging (Morris 1991). Empathy involves ...
In addition, we presented a variety of methods and tools used to improve prehospital identification and transport of potential stroke victims. In the next section, we will present a variety of cases in tutorial format. These cases are designed to illustrate and emphasize the lessons presented ...
Physical therapists (PTs) help patients, including accident victims and individuals with disabling conditions such as low-back pain, arthritis, heart disease, fractures, head injuries, diabetes, wounds and cerebral palsy, by providing services that restore function, improve mobility, relieve pain, and...