
Blogging after stroke: The blog as a rehabilitation tool
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,...

Can Transplanted Neurons Help After Stroke?
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....

Stroke can be prevented: Campaigns save lives #StrokeEurope
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...

Thrombus- a small word yet a big scare for stroke survivors and their families
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...

Early menstruation linked to higher stroke risk
Source: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY Women who started menstruating early in life could later face a higher risk of stroke. Women who started their periods at the age of 13 or younger, are about 1.8 times more likely to suffer a stroke, than those who started at the age of 15....