It is a fundamentally important argument for those who are facing the issue of stroke. We have already treated the topic of diaschisis in a generic way in another article, but I felt the need to expand the information also...
Read MoreVanessa asked me if it would be a good idea to tie her father’s “good” arm. Clearly, tying the healthy arm of a hemiplegic patient is not a wise decision for a number of reasons that we will discuss together...
Read MoreSocial networks are a social structure that group people from all around the world. The use of these tools is practically infinite due to their wide functional diversity, and the tendency to use them has increased recently...
Read MoreEvery year 15 million people in the world suffer a Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA). Faced with this reality, and the technological possibilities offered by the time, an alternative has been created that allows both, family...
Read MoreThere is a very particular phenomenon that many hemiplegia patients often report to me, which I consider important to expose. “When I wake up in my bed in the morning, I can barely move my hand a bit, but later in the day,...
Read MoreAphasia from 3 points of view: Patient, Family Member and Therapist. “The problem of right hemiplegia with aphasia is that it is really complex to manage from all points of view.” The patient finds himself from one day to the...
Read MoreThe evaluation of the population health status has been based on simple estimators such as general mortality rates or by age groups, incidence rates, prevalence or lethality, these estimators present limitations to...
Read MoreDysphagia is when difficulties occur in the swallowing process. This symptom can be present in the first days after the stroke, manifesting itself with levels of severity, ranging from the difficulty of swallowing only some...
Read MoreIn the pages of this site, we almost exclusively refer to the most common strokes, and until now, we have never discussed the topic of cerebellar stroke and what is the cerebellum. This is a particularly complex issue, on one...
Read MoreWhen we hear this phrase said by the operators of a rehabilitation clinic or hospital: ¨the patient does not cooperate¨ our world falls apart. We have just passed the most critical stage where we did not even know if our...
Read MoreT: “What happened?” P: “I feel a pull” T: “What do you mean by a pull?” P: “Something that is pulling” T: “And that pulling, feels like what” P: “It is like an elastic band that when I try to make a movement, it pulls me”...
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