Stroke

HAWTHORN East mother of two Dawn Oldham was as fit as she had ever been, when she suddenly felt ill one day while getting ready to cook dinner.

"I'd been feeling fabulous all day," Ms Oldham said.

"I played basketball, picked up the kids and I was in my pantry working out what to cook for dinner when it happened."

At just 42, Ms Oldham suffered a stroke.

"Initially I felt very dizzy, I called out to my husband, who, luckily, was home at the time, and he had heard about the FAST campaign.

"He sat me down on a seat and I just slipped off it.

"I had no control of my right side, and my mouth had dropped. I remember everything, I was laughing hysterically.

"I had no idea what was happening."

After spending a few days in hospital, Ms Oldham was sent home, but said she was stunned by the lack of support she received, which has led to her new passion as a board member of the Stroke Foundation.

Last month, Ms Oldham was part of a group of 70 stroke victims who went to Canberra to speak with Health Minister Tanya Plibersek.

"Stroke is the second biggest killer in Australia, yet we basically get no government support," she said.

Drug, alcohol abuse tied to early-life strokes: study

Drug, alcohol abuse tied to early-life strokes: study

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Stroke and Hypertension.

An alarming one in three American adults has high blood pressure. Known medically as hypertension, many people don't even know they have it, because high blood pressure has no symptoms or warning signs. But when elevated blood pressure is accompanied by abnormal cholesterol and blood sugar levels, the damage to your arteries, kidneys, and heart accelerates exponentially. Fortunately, high blood pressure is easy to detect and treat. Sometimes people can keep blood pressure in a healthy range simply by making lifestyle changes, such as losing weight, increasing activity, and eating more healthfully. This report details those changes, including a Special Section that features numerous ways to cut excess salt from your diet — a policy strongly recommended by new federal guidelines. This report also includes tips on how to use a home blood pressure monitor, as well as advice on choosing a drug treatment strategy based your age and any other existing medical issues you may have.
To avoid Stroke keep blood pressure within normal range. 

Recovery of Stroke.

In my expriance of  Stroke  Recovery I found that try to send singal from the good hand to the paralysed hand will enhance the recovery.While exercises first do exercise with good hand then the weak hand and feel the differance with your eyes closed,then both hands and feel it.Yoga is felt mentally so the coordition increases and so is the balance.
Keep doing DAILY  to feel the diffrence.Stroke  recovery is slow but difinialty progressive.

Yoga in Stroke

Practicing yoga after a stroke may help rebuild balance and prevent potentially disabling falls among the elderly, a study shows. The study shows stroke survivors who participated in a specialized post-stroke yoga class improved their balance by up to 34%.
Researchers say the participants also experienced a big boost in their own self-confidence after their yoga practice and became more physically active in their communities.

Yoga in Stroke recovery.

Yoga Can Help Stroke Survivors Regain Their Balance

Add to the long list of health benefits attributed to regular yoga practice better balance, increased confidence and higher quality of life in survivors of stroke

Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2012/07/27/yoga-can-help-stroke-survivors-regain-their-balance/#ixzz21wIYEtsW

Recovery of Stroke

Seven years ago, after her stroke, Karen Kolberg remembered only one poem. It reminded her to "keep squeezing drops of the sun from your prayers, your work, your music, and from your companion's beautiful laughter."
She'll tell you that reciting those words in her mind, over and over again, saved her life.
When the stroke came, Kolberg had been performing from memory the works of 14th-century poet-philosopher Hafiz for an audience at Club Timbuktu. In her brain, the wall between an artery and vein burst. She began to drip sweat and forget the poems. In the ambulance, she felt herself dissolving.
"There was no fear, because that's a concept," Kolberg recalls. "There was no peace either, because that's a concept. There was no ego to be afraid or not afraid, to be in love or not in love. It's not like I died and came back. I was just go ing."
When Kolberg woke up, she was mute and, except for her big toe and pointer finger, paralyzed on her right side. The stroke, she believed, halved her life into "before" and "after." Still, Kolberg knew she'd been lucky to survive and to eventually recover her speech and mobility.
One recent evening, standing before a small audience gathered in the Schlitz Audubon Center, she worries that the 350 poems she's memorized since her stroke may permanently divide her body and mind.

Micromotor in Stroke

Micromotor may help stroke treatment

Updated: 12:14, Tuesday July 24, 2012

A motor tiny enough to fit through the vessels of the brain but with the power of a small kitchen appliance could revolutionise the treatment of strokes, its Australian developers say.
At only 250 microns wide, the micromotor is about the width of a human hair and the size of a grain of salt.
It is the world's strongest micromotor, with the equivalent driving power of a small kitchen appliance, according to a team from Melbourne's RMIT University and the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
It was developed with the aim of treating strokes caused by blocked arteries, and cerebral aneurysms from weaknesses in brain arteries, in patients who can't be helped with standard surgical equipment.
The hospital's Associate Professor Bernard Yan said current neurointervention procedures were unsuccessful approximately 15 per cent of the time.
Microcatheters of flexible plastic with permanently bent tips were used to navigate through a patient's arteries and into their brain to reach the target, he said.
'The process is akin to navigating wet paper tubes with a half-boiled piece of spaghetti, and because the current tools are not flexible to guide through the tiny brain vessels, it can on rare occasion lead to puncturing an artery which can result in disability or death,' Assoc Prof Yan said in a statement on Tuesday.
'This tiny motor means we can now look to develop instruments which can be steered with precision, guiding the catheter to its destination more quickly and accurately.
'This will have a dramatic improvement in stroke survival rates and improve our patients' quality of life.'
Professor James Friend of RMIT said the first step was to develop a motor small enough to pass through the vessels that had sufficient torque to drive itself and the catheter along.
'Now we plan to place it on the tip of the micro-guidewire that is first inserted during endovascular procedures, allowing the tip to bend in whatever direction the neurointerventionist needs,' he said.

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STROKE

'It could happen to anybody': Student, 20, suffers shock stroke at dinner with her parents

By Daily Mail Reporter

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2177766/Jennie-Cosh-Student-20-suffers-shock-stroke-dinner-parents.html#ixzz21ZD7wQpZ

Micromotor may help stroke treatment

Updated: 12:14, Tuesday July 24, 2012

A motor tiny enough to fit through the vessels of the brain but with the power of a small kitchen appliance could revolutionise the treatment of strokes, its Australian developers say.
At only 250 microns wide, the micromotor is about the width of a human hair and the size of a grain of salt.
It is the world's strongest micromotor, with the equivalent driving power of a small kitchen appliance, according to a team from Melbourne's RMIT University and the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
It was developed with the aim of treating strokes caused by blocked arteries, and cerebral aneurysms from weaknesses in brain arteries, in patients who can't be helped with standard surgical equipment.
The hospital's Associate Professor Bernard Yan said current neurointervention procedures were unsuccessful approximately 15 per cent of the time.
Microcatheters of flexible plastic with permanently bent tips were used to navigate through a patient's arteries and into their brain to reach the target, he said.
'The process is akin to navigating wet paper tubes with a half-boiled piece of spaghetti, and because the current tools are not flexible to guide through the tiny brain vessels, it can on rare occasion lead to puncturing an artery which can result in disability or death,' Assoc Prof Yan said in a statement on Tuesday.
'This tiny motor means we can now look to develop instruments which can be steered with precision, guiding the catheter to its destination more quickly and accurately.
'This will have a dramatic improvement in stroke survival rates and improve our patients' quality of life.'
Professor James Friend of RMIT said the first step was to develop a motor small enough to pass through the vessels that had sufficient torque to drive itself and the catheter along.
'Now we plan to place it on the tip of the micro-guidewire that is first inserted during endovascular procedures, allowing the tip to bend in whatever direction the neurointerventionist needs,' he said.

Stroke and Recovery

In order to avoid stroke we should be careful in our eating habits and get our blood checked  every year.Excercise for 20 minutes.

Quick guide to cholesterol and triglyceride levels
Total cholesterol level	Total cholesterol category
Less than 200 mg/dL	Desirable
200–239 mg/dL	Borderline high
240 mg/dL and above	High
LDL cholesterol level	LDL cholesterol category
Less than 100 mg/dL (less than 70 mg/dL for people at high risk)	Optimal
100–129 mg/dL	Near optimal/above optimal
130–159 mg/dL	Borderline high
160–189 mg/dL	High
190 mg/dL and above	Very high
HDL cholesterol level	HDL cholesterol category
Less than 40 mg/dL	Low (representing risk)
60 mg/dL and above	High (heart-protective)
Triglyceride level	Triglyceride category
Less than 150 mg/dL	Normal
150–199 mg/dL	Borderline high
200–499 mg/dL	High
500 mg/dL and above	Very high

Star Local News Plano Star-courier News Plano firefighter dies of stroke: 24- year-old was Navy veteran, R.L. Turner graduate

Star Local News Plano Star-courier News Plano firefighter dies of stroke: 24- year-old was Navy veteran, R.L. Turner graduate
Very unfortunate ,he died at such young age.May bless his soul.