Walking Ability Study Benefits Stroke Survivors Stroke is the leading cause of disability in older adults in the United States, but research by Clarkson University Associate Professor of Physical Therapy George Fulk and his colleagues is pointing the way to recovery...

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...