Category: Stroke

  • Impacts of Stroke on the Nervous and Sensory System

    Stroke is a severe pathology of the brain, which is caused by the violation of the blood supply and is fraught with dangerous implications for both the nervous system and the sensory system. The manifestations of impairments in patients with stroke may vary depending on the severity of the brain damage. At the same time,…

  • Dysarthria Diagnosis After Stroke

    Response to the YouTube Video The video shows that the patient had a stroke (Dysarthria 1). This stroke must have affected several cranial nerves in the brain that control the face and the tongue. Damage in the hemispheres can result in dysarthria. This condition occurs when the brain parts controlling most of the muscles involved…

  • Stroke: Risk Factors and Preventive Measures

    The presented case shows a woman who had suffered the symptoms of stroke, but after a while, her condition returned to normal. According to the CT of the carotids, the blockage rates are within the norm. The blood pressure can be considered high and corresponding to Stage 1 hypertension, which is common for elderly people.…

  • NIH Stroke Scale: Application and Effectiveness

    NIH Stroke Scale is a tool that is primarily used internationally to assess the cognitive effects of stroke. It can scientifically be described as the quantitative measure of stroke-associated neurologic deficit. Before this scale, other scales were in use, but with the help of videos available on how to efficiently use the scale, it has…

  • The Impact of Stroke on the Sit to Stand Task

    Introduction Sit to Stand (STS) movement is believed to be one of the most demanding activities. The given activity can be described as the process of standing up from a chair or any other object to an upright posture. It is a movement with great clinical interest that helps in defining an individuals motor and…

  • Stroke and Its Repercussions: Humanities and Educational Research

    Norma Lauderback, the subject of this case study, is 80. She shares a home with Floyd Lauderback, to whom she has been married for 50 years and they are locals of Riverbend City. Norma once dropped a dish while cleaning the dishes because she had a strange feeling. Her spouse came running to her side…

  • Improving Stroke Care for Indigenous Patients

    Introduction Researchers have raised concerns over the prevalence of stroke in Indigenous populations across the globe. Existing literature indicates a 14-fold prevalence of stroke in the Aboriginal population in 2019-2020 (Nedkoff et al., 2020). Even when scholars have recommended evidence-based therapies in emergency departments, incidents of preventable mortality rates are still higher in Aboriginal and…

  • Stroke: Preliminary Care Coordination Plan

    Stroke Analysis and Best Practices for Improved Health Stroke is a medical emergency disease that happens when part of a brain collapses after losing blood supply. The part of the body controlled by the affected section of the brain also stops functioning (Alqwaifly et al., 2020). Stroke is also known as brain attack or cerebrovascular…

  • Stroke and Rehabilitation Among the Elderly People

    Case Description Presenting Condition History Patient X is a 62-year-old member of the senior citizens working on a Dairy Farm. While eating his supper, he experienced sudden onset speech slurring, developed facial droop on his right hand, which subsequently developed weakness in the left side of the lower and upper body. He and his wife…

  • My Stroke of Insight TED Talk by Taylor

    In the video, Jill gives an informative insight into the intricate workings of the human brain. She is a neuroanatomist who personally experienced the distinct characteristics of the brains two hemispheres after having a stroke. Since her incident occurred in the left cerebral half, Jill could not understand human language and move her right arm.…