Stroke Damage - Are You Lucky Enough to Manage?

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Stroke is a serious medical condition that leaves severe damage to the human organism. Of course not all of the cases are that serious and the damage - that fatal.

Stroke is a disease that harms the brain. It occurs when a blood vessel is blocked and doesn't let enough blood flow into the brain or when there is a bleeding within the brain or between the skull and the brain. In both cases normal brain function is interrupted by the time the stroke occurs. In many cases the brain is not able to resume all of its normal functions a long time after the stroke or even forever.

Some of the most common stroke damages are paralysis, cognitive deficits, speech problems, emotional difficulties, daily living problems, and pain. Of course the type and the amount of the damage depends both on the type of stroke and on its intensity. For example, someone who has a small stroke may experience only minor problems such as weakness of an arm or leg. People who have larger strokes may be paralyzed on one side or lose their ability to speak. Some people recover completely from strokes, but more than 2/3 of survivors will have some type of disability.

The physical therapy is so far the most common method for overcoming stroke damage. It is usually combined with a therapy involving relearning daily activities. Medication therapy is also a very common post treatment for strokes. Some researches suggest that an antioxidant called AEOL 10150 significantly increases the chance of resuming brain normal functions after a stroke. This synthetic antioxidant reduces the damage following stroke with about 40% by neutralizing the free radicals and preventing cell death. Another research suggests that red wine also helps recovering after a stroke. Of course this is not officially recognized as a successful therapy for the stroke rehabilitation process. Moreover the amount of wine that should be consumed depends on the person person's weight and the concentration of resveratrol (the wine compound that helps brain recover after a stroke) in the wine.

Let alone the physical damage that stroke can trigger, there are emotional problems resulting from stroke. In some cases this happens when there is a direct damage to the brain emotional centers, in other cases - from the difficulty adapting to new life after stroke. Post-stroke emotional difficulties include anxiety, panic attacks, and failure to express emotions, mania, apathy, and psychosis. 30% to 50% from stroke survivors suffer from depression. Other stroke survivors are unable to express their emotions appropriately, for example crying when happy or laughing and crying without a reason, etc. this happens in almost 20% of the stroke cases. Around 10% of stroke victims suffer from seizures, usually during the first week after the brain attack.

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