Life After Stroke: The Guide to Recovering Your Health and Preventing Another Stroke
In this compassionate guide, three expert physicians who treat people with stroke describe how to navigate the path to recovery. Their practical advice on treatment, rehabilitation, and lifestyle changes is also designed to help prevent another stroke.
Drs. Stein, Silver, and Frates begin by explaining how stroke occurs and what happens when different parts of the brain are injured. They describe diagnostic tools such as CT scans and MRIs as well as medications used to prevent and treat stroke, and they explain in detail how stroke survivors can heal optimally. They also set out plans to help survivors reduce the risk of another stroke, including the Stroke Savvy Exercise Plan and Stroke Savvy Diet Plan.
Relating patients' experiences and bringing readers up to date on promising new treatments, Life After Stroke offers hope to stroke survivors and their families.
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Life After Stroke: The Guide to Recovering Your Health and Preventing Another Stroke
In this compassionate guide, three expert physicians who treat people with stroke describe how to navigate the path to recovery. Their practical advice on treatment, rehabilitation, and lifestyle changes is also designed to help prevent another stroke.
Drs. Stein, Silver, and Frates begin by explaining how stroke occurs and what happens when different parts of the brain are injured. They describe diagnostic tools such as CT scans and MRIs as well as medications used to prevent and treat stroke, and they explain in detail how stroke survivors can heal optimally. They also set out plans to help survivors reduce the risk of another stroke, including the Stroke Savvy Exercise Plan and Stroke Savvy Diet Plan.
Relating patients' experiences and bringing readers up to date on promising new treatments, Life After Stroke offers hope to stroke survivors and their families.
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Life After Stroke: The Guide to Recovering Your Health and Preventing Another Stroke
In this compassionate guide, three expert physicians who treat people with stroke describe how to navigate the path to recovery. Their practical advice on treatment, rehabilitation, and lifestyle changes is also designed to help prevent another stroke.
Drs. Stein, Silver, and Frates begin by explaining how stroke occurs and what happens when different parts of the brain are injured. They describe diagnostic tools such as CT scans and MRIs as well as medications used to prevent and treat stroke, and they explain in detail how stroke survivors can heal optimally. They also set out plans to help survivors reduce the risk of another stroke, including the Stroke Savvy Exercise Plan and Stroke Savvy Diet Plan.
Relating patients' experiences and bringing readers up to date on promising new treatments, Life After Stroke offers hope to stroke survivors and their families.
Joel Stein, M.D., is the chief medical officer at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and associate professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School. Julie Silver, M.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School. She is also a medical director at the Spaulding-Framingham outpatient center. Elizabeth Pegg Frates, M.D., is a clinical instructor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School.
Table of Contents
List of Tables and Figures ForewordAcknowledgmentsPart I: Understanding StrokeChapter 1. Understanding Stroke and Its Consequences Chapter 2. How Strokes Affect Our Brains and Bodies Chapter 3. Tests Your Doctor May Order Part II: Stroke RecoveryChapter 4. Minimizing Early Post-Stroke Disability and Complications Chapter 5. Maximizing Recovery from a Stroke Chapter 6. Post-Stroke Medical and Social Issues Part III: Preventing Stroke: Medical IssuesChapter 7. Risk Factors for Having a Stroke: An Introduction Chapter 8. Heart and Blood Vessel Conditions and Stroke Chapter 9. High Blood Pressure and Stroke Chapter 10. Diabetes and Stroke Chapter 11. Other Causes of Stroke Chapter 12. Genetics and Stroke Chapter 13. Medications That Help Prevent Stroke Chapter 14. When Surgery Is an Option Part IV: Preventing Stroke: Lifestyle IssuesChapter 15. Diet and Stroke Chapter 16. Exercise and Stroke Chapter 17. How Smoking, Alcohol, and Illegal Drugs Affect Stroke RiskPart V: Looking to the FutureChapter 18. Research on the Horizon Chapter 19. Prevent Another Stroke by Taking Charge ResourcesNotesIndex
This book may help you navigate the sometimes confusing corridors of medicine to empower you to take control of your health or that of your loved one. Read it and learn, and then discuss it with your physician. Between your involved interest, what you discover here, and your doctor's expertise, your or your loved one's recovery lies in very good hands indeed.
From the Publisher
This book may help you navigate the sometimes confusing corridors of medicine to empower you to take control of your health or that of your loved one. Read it and learn, and then discuss it with your physician. Between your involved interest, what you discover here, and your doctor's expertise, your or your loved one's recovery lies in very good hands indeed.—Robert J. Wityk, M.D., from the foreword