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Once a person suffers a stroke attack, the immediate goal is to prevent the recurrence of another stroke.

While admitted in the hospital, a stroke patient must start stroke therapy. Stroke therapy includes rehabilitation made by physical and occupational therapists, care management by nurses or other healthcare professionals, as well as medical management by the stroke patient’s doctor.

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Posted on March 25, 2011

Home Therapy and Stroke Patients

When a stroke attack occurs, the best way to bounce back is to immediately undergo stroke rehabilitation or stroke rehab. During the course of a stroke rehab, a team of healthcare professionals work with the stroke patient to reclaim skills that were lost during the stroke attack. Rehab helps the stroke victim to be as independent as possible with daily life. It also helps the stroke patient to learn to live with the changes that happened to the stroke patient’s mind and body because of the stroke attack. And, rehab also helps the stroke victim to adjust to living at his own home, living with his family and even adjusting to life in the community.

Rehab should start as early as the stroke was diagnosed. It starts while the stroke victim is still in the hospital. Once the stroke patient leaves the hospital, home therapy or home rehab should immediately start. Almost all rehab programs lasts for at least 3 hours per day and eats up 5 to 6 days in a week. The likelihood of recovering skills and abilities is very high during the first few months after the onset of the stroke. Hence, it is vital that a stroke victim must undergo home rehab as early as possible. Continue reading →

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Posted on December 15, 2010

The Kitchen

Many of the following suggestions are made to fit the needs of stroke patients who are disabled who are able to help in the kitchen.

Safety

  • Use an electric teakettle.
  • Set the water-heater temperature at 120°F.
  • Use a single lever faucet that can balance water temperature.
  • Provide an area away from the knife drawer and the stove where the stroke patient can help prepare food.
  • Use a microwave oven whenever possible (but not if a person with a pacemaker is present).
  • Ask the gas company to modify your stove to provide a gas odor strong enough to alert you if the pilot light goes out.
  • If possible, have the range controls on the front of the stove.
  • Provide a step stool, never a chair, to reach high shelves.

Cover the floor with a nonslip surface or use a nonskid mat near the sink, where it may be wet.

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Posted on December 2, 2010