Video games aren’t just for kids! For several years, doctors and therapists have been recommending that elderly individuals that are going through rehabilitation use motion sensitive games, like those on the Nintendo Wii, to help encourage … [Read more...]
Physical Therapy After Stroke Might Help Other Parts of Body
After someone suffers from a stroke, the process of rehabilitation can be a long and painful journey. In fact, because the post-stroke recovery process can be so unpredictable, many individuals who have had a stroke never fully recover. … [Read more...]
Stroke Study Shows Potential for Faster Treatment
Strokes are one of the most debilitating health conditions that seniors can face, but medical science has come a long way over the last few years. For example, a drug called rtPA can basically stop a stroke from occurring before any damage … [Read more...]
Successful Stroke Recovery Depends on Treatment Method
The aftermath of a stroke can sometimes result in permanent disability. Researchers have known for a while that the quick treatment of a stroke can help patients to recover more completely, but this isn’t always the case. Stroke treatment … [Read more...]
Lifelong Exercise Has a Positive Impact on Senior Health
Exercise is important. We all know that by now. There are commercials about the necessity of healthy exercise on television, there are ads in magazines, and even billboards on the highways talking about how exercise is the best thing that … [Read more...]
Humanized Care Provides for Better Care
Bournemouth University recently published a study where it was argued that the process of going into the hospital can be made much easier on patients if the staff simply act “human” toward patients. By bringing practitioners and researchers … [Read more...]
Exercise Plays an Even Larger Role in Health than Thought
After someone suffers from a stroke, the recovery process can sometimes be very difficult and prolonged. In fact, many people who suffer from a stroke are often permanently disabled. They need the assistance of a professional caregiver in … [Read more...]
Recovering from a Stroke with Sleep
Just what the role of sleep is for the human body is not completely known right now, but current research indicates that it has to do with the brain healing and cleaning itself. When we sleep, metabolic waste exits the brain, leaving cells … [Read more...]
Helping to Understand Stroke Disabilities
After experiencing a stroke, many people experience both physical disability and difficulty speaking. For a long time, it was assumed that this was because when blood and oxygen flow to the brain was impaired, the region of the brain that … [Read more...]
Stroke Recovery Still Expanding
One common problem that occurs after a stroke is problems with language. Previous studies have found that individualized attention to patients and a uniquely tailored approach to therapy can be helpful, but unfortunately, this has proven to … [Read more...]
Bilingual Patients Recover from Stroke Faster
One interesting thing that researchers have recently discovered is that speaking more than one language can help with stroke recovery. The study looked at patients who were bilingual, and then followed their recovery after their stroke … [Read more...]
Battling Depression During Stroke Recovery
In a clinical setting, researchers have already determined that motivation is an important part of recovering fully from a stroke. The thought is that depression can hinder the recovery process, making it so that functional recovery is … [Read more...]