It is a fundamentally important argument for those who are facing the issue of stroke. We have already treated the topic of diaschisis in a generic way in another article, but I felt the need to expand the information also taking into consideration the new scientific contributions on the subject. Objectives of the article: 1.…
Vanessa asked me if it would be a good idea to tie her father’s “good” arm. Clearly, tying the healthy arm of a hemiplegic patient is not a wise decision for a number of reasons that we will discuss together below. For now it is useful to say that the idea conceived by Vanessa in…
Social networks are a social structure that group people from all around the world. The use of these tools is practically infinite due to their wide functional diversity, and the tendency to use them has increased recently because of the emergence of new applications that seek to capture people’s attention by activities, tastes or needs.…
Every year 15 million people in the world suffer a Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA). Faced with this reality, and the technological possibilities offered by the time, an alternative has been created that allows both, family members and patients, to learn to perform therapeutic exercises from comfort of your home. Telerehabilitation is the main purpose of the…
There is a very particular phenomenon that many hemiplegia patients often report to me, which I consider important to expose. “When I wake up in my bed in the morning, I can barely move my hand a bit, but later in the day, I can’t do it” Let’s try to think over and focus on…
Aphasia from 3 points of view: Patient, Family Member and Therapist. “The problem of right hemiplegia with aphasia is that it is really complex to manage from all points of view.” The patient finds himself from one day to the next without his ability to move on the right side of the body, on a…
The evaluation of the population health status has been based on simple estimators such as general mortality rates or by age groups, incidence rates, prevalence or lethality, these estimators present limitations to measure the health-disease phenomenon. Stroke of both ischemic and hemorrhagic origin has many similar risk factors that are classified into two categories:…
Dysphagia is when difficulties occur in the swallowing process. This symptom can be present in the first days after the stroke, manifesting itself with levels of severity, ranging from the difficulty of swallowing only some types of food, to the total impossibility of feeding or hydrating through the mouth, reaching the most serious cases, the…
In the pages of this site, we almost exclusively refer to the most common strokes, and until now, we have never discussed the topic of cerebellar stroke and what is the cerebellum. This is a particularly complex issue, on one hand due to the complexity of the functions that the cerebellum performs, on the other…
When we hear this phrase said by the operators of a rehabilitation clinic or hospital: ¨the patient does not cooperate¨ our world falls apart. We have just passed the most critical stage where we did not even know if our relative would survive the stroke and now we find ourselves in a moment where we…
