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Is it possible to lead a normal life after a stroke? How can I go back to work or drive again? Read about important steps in the months following a stroke.

Family And Loved Ones: Their Role In The Road To Stroke Recovery

When a person suffers an ischemic stroke, the brain is damaged. An ischemic stroke is a condition where the brain doesn’t get enough oxygen because of a blockage (called a blood clot) in the blood vessel, When the brain doesn’t get the oxygen it needs, permanent damage can occur.

The stroke victim can suffer from paralysis, speech defects, and vision problems. Ischemic strokes can also impair the person’s ability to be cognitive as well as affect one’s moods and emotions.

Changes in Personality Caused by a Stroke
When a person suffers a stroke, a part of the brain that affects mood and behavior is impacted. It can cause several changes in the personality of a stroke victim. Some of the changes a person who suffered from a stroke may be the following:

  • Depressed – After a stroke, a significant change in the behavioral personality of a stroke victim is depression. This is caused by biochemical changes that happened in the brain cause by the stroke.  A depressed stroke victim often feels hopeless, are fatigued, sleep poorly and do not eat well.
  • Apathetic – A person after having a stroke can be apathetic. Apathy is when a person is indifferent and unmindful of the surroundings and is content with not doing anything.
  • Impulsive – Another personality change a stroke victim may experience is impulsiveness. This is when the person does not think ahead and often does something too quickly, on impulse. The normal brain pattern of deciding whether to do or not to do something is impaired and the resulting behavior is impulsiveness.

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Posted on November 30, 2011

A Basic Primer of the Effect of Stroke on Fine Motor Control

Every forty seconds, someone in the world is suffering from a stroke. Two thirds of the victims survive, mostly from an Ischemic stroke which accounts for 87% of all strokes.

What is an Ischemic Stroke?

An ischemic stroke occurs when there is an obstruction (blood clot) in the blood vessel supplying blood to the brain. Ischemic strokes are not to be confused with Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) where the obstruction is temporary (an average of a minute) and cause no permanent brain injury.

An ischemic stroke limits blood flow to the brain damaging it. Aside from paralysis, speech defects, and vision problems, ischemic strokes can also impair the body’s fine motor control. Among all impairments stroke victims suffer from, fine motor control is one of the hardest to rehabilitate.

Without proper supervisions, stroke patients find the rehabilitation exercises for fine motor skills to be too demanding and repetitive with frustrating results that they quit halfway.

Fine Motor Control

Fine motor control is the coordinated movement of our skeletal, muscular, and neurological body functions. An example of a fine motor skill is picking up a coin, tying a shoelace, or typing on a keyboard. Stroke patients who have difficulty in performing these kinds of activity suffer a condition called hemiparesis.

There are two common kinds of hemiparesis; Pure Motor Hemiparesis and Ataxic Hemiparesis Syndrome. Pure motor hemiparesis is the most frequent type where stroke victims have face, arm, and leg weakness. Ataxic Hemiparesis Syndrome is the weakness or clumsiness of the body on one side.

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Posted on November 7, 2011

Support groups can help recovery faster

It has been said many times in the past that “No man is an island.” It is a saying that reflects real life where a person would eventually need someone to survive the daily grind of life.

Because humans are such social beings, they feel the need to be loved and accepted. Abraham Maslow had illustrated this need in his Hierarchy of Needs. It falls under the third category which is love and belongingness.

All humans aspire to be a part of a family, a group, a clique, etc. The group that the individual aims to be a part of eventually helps mold that individual’s personality which then makes the person whole. An individual can experience his true worth if he or she is a part of a larger group.

Members of a group usually have one thing in common. A common bloodline, a shared history, a common goal, having the same aspirations, these are just some of the things which make people to band together.

If an able bodied person needs this kind of ‘attention’ then it follows that people with physical disabilities would also require such need. Stroke survivors are not exempted from such need.

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Posted on September 21, 2011