Rena, aged 81 was widowed recently and lives a semi active life as she suffers from borderline heart and kidney failure. Early one morning, she telephoned a neighbor, requesting she come over immediately. Within five minutes the neighbor, an active volunteer in the...

Written by Alison Turner Kasia's Facebook page is filled with the subjects you might expect a 28 year old woman to be interested in - Zumba, cooking, travel and concerns about money. But you'll also see references to spasticity, hemiparesis, research and, frequently,...

Transplanted neurons incorporated into a stroke-injured rat brain Today, a stroke usually leads to permanent disability -- but in the future, the stroke-injured brain could be reparable by replacing dead cells with new, healthy neurons, using transplantation....

Dušan M. from Serbia was proud that he could eat a lot of greasy and salty food, smoke two packs of cigarettes a day and never had a sick day in his life, until he was 49 and had a stroke while trying to tie his shoelaces and go to work. -I hate that although now I do...

Written by Alison Turner The word is Thrombus. From the Greek, thrombos, meaning “lump, piece, clot of blood." About 90% of strokes are caused by clots blocking blood flow to the brain, and the word carries grim associations for many stroke survivors and their...