A stroke is often thought of as a health problem that mainly affects older people. Many people imagine that strokes happen only in their 60s, 70s, or later. However, doctors have noticed an important ...

For many stroke survivors, recovery is derailed by painful muscle stiffness and involuntary spasms that limit movement, independence, and quality of life. Often viewed as an unavoidable consequence of ...

Stroke survivors often face substantial and long-lasting problems with their arms. Both arms often decline together: When one arm is more severely affected by the stroke, the other becomes more ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Specialists are optimistic about new technology that could significantly aid stroke recovery, even long-term. Marla McCarthy, a stroke survivor, shared her experience, saying, "So ...

Each year, thousands of stroke survivors are left with hemianopia, a condition that causes loss of half of their visual field (the “vertical midline”). Hemianopia severely affects daily ...

Stroke recovery improves when care addresses social needs like reducing loneliness and depression and strengthening support. Stroke recovery is often measured by physical milestones, but growing ...

When examining recovery during the first year after an ischemic stroke, a new study has found for daily tasks such as eating, dressing and driving, female participants experienced slightly worse ...

Hospitals are referring a larger share of stroke patients to inpatient rehabilitation facilities, which typically favor home health as the provider of any additional step-down care, a recent study ...

Even after a blood clot is removed from a large artery in the brain via a minimally invasive procedure to treat a clot-caused stroke, delivering the clot-busting medication alteplase to the area may ...

TweakTown editor Anthony Garreffa is recovering in hospital after suffering a serious stroke last month. The road to recovery will be long.