Life After Stroke Guide: Our Path Forward
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- Written By: Allied Services Integrated Health
Strokes, along with other nervous system disorders, neurological injuries, and conditions, can impair sensation, movement, and intellectual processes. More than 795,000 people sustain a stroke each year in the United States.
Stroke Rehabilitation
The goal of stroke rehabilitation is to help you relearn skills you lost when a stroke affected part of your brain. Stroke rehabilitation can help you regain independence and improve your quality of life.
Stroke rehabilitation is an essential part of recovery. Successful stroke recovery depends on multiple factors including:
- the part of the brain the stroke occurred in and the amount of damage it caused
- the age, motivation, and general health of the stroke survivor
- available family and social support; and participation in high-quality neurorehabilitation therapies
Whether the stroke was ischemic, hemorrhagic, or a transient ischemic attack (a TIA or “mini-stroke”), our caring professionals will come up with a treatment plan to best help you recover.
Conditions treated include:
- Behavioral and social judgment problems
- Memory Loss
- Cognitive deficits
- Muscle weakness or paralysis
- Confusion Speech and language problems
- Difficulty swallowing
- Emotional issues
- Difficulty walking
- Visual perceptual problems
Learn more about stroke recovery at Allied Services.
Stroke Rehabilitation Guide
The American Stroke Association offers a free guide to Stroke Rehabilitation which is available for download here.
