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5 Safe Post-Stroke Activities To Guide Recovery
5 Safe Post-Stroke Activities To Guide Recovery
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  • Stroke Caregivers, Stroke Recovery
  • Being patient during recovery A stroke is accompanied by immense changes, so it can be very difficult for sufferers to feel like themselves again afterwards. It’s all about taking it one day at a time and staying positive. The best way to ensure a fast recovery is repetition, which helps with creating muscle memory and…
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    Personality Changes After a Stroke
    Personality Changes After a Stroke
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  • Stroke Symptoms
  • A stroke often leaves its mark and, as everyone knows, causes physical damage. But did you know that stroke can affect the personality as well? It is more common than you think and may explain why you or your loved one are acting unusual. Rest assured that personality changes after a stroke are perfectly normal.…
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    How Loved Ones Can Help Their Stroke Survivor
    How Loved Ones Can Help Their Stroke Survivor
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  • Stroke, Stroke Caregivers, Stroke Recovery
  • Sudden changes after a stroke and how to deal with them Returning to normal life is the goal of every stroke survivor. But this path can sometimes prove to be a rocky one. The love and support given to them by their friends, family, and caregivers can really make a difference in their long-term recovery.…
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    Caring For a Loved One After a Stroke
    Caring For a Loved One After a Stroke
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  • Stroke Caregivers
  • Relatives have many questions at the outset about their loved one's needs and recovery after a stroke. This is also completely normal and understandable. Managing your new role as “caregiver” may seem daunting, but you are already participating in one of the most important first steps for treating stroke: educating yourself. By keeping the following…
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    Stroke Caregiver Resources
    Stroke Caregiver Resources
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  • Stroke Caregivers, Stroke Recovery
  • The Caregiver's role The primary tasks in caring for a stroke patient are to take care of them comprehensively, to care for them and to accompany them during their recovery. This experience can be both morally rewarding and emotionally taxing, regardless if the survivor is a loved one or someone you are not as involved…
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    Communicating With The Aphasic
    Communicating With The Aphasic
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  • Stroke, Stroke Caregivers, Stroke Recovery
  • Impairment of a person's ability to understand or formulate individual words and phrases is called aphasia. This is a language disorder. Aphasia can occur after a stroke in the language areas of the brain, such as portions of the frontal lobe, temporal lobe, and parietal lobe. About 25-40% of stroke survivors develop some level of…
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    What Stroke Survivors Wish You Understood
    What Stroke Survivors Wish You Understood
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  • Stroke Caregivers, Stroke Recovery
  • What caring for stroke survivors means People who have suffered a stroke can feel that they are in a devastating physical and emotional state in the face of the seemingly insurmountable aftermath. In cases like this, stroke recovery dramatically depends on the survivor's support system. Loved ones offer their survivor hope for the future while…
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