- What are the effects of brain stroke?
- What are the different types of brain stroke?
- What can be the Psychological impact from brain stroke?
- What are the effects of brain stroke?
One can have motor loss and/or sensory loss; some people have added problems like loss of balance, loss of speech, disturbed Speech, loss of memory, neglect of one side of body, pusher’s syndrome. In short there are different types of brain stroke with manifestation, which are exclusive as well as shared. - What are the different types of brain stroke?
- Some people get transient attacks of brain stroke & recover completely. They need good medical attention to prevent repeated attacks
- Some gets brain infarct due to blood clots, such patients develop brain stroke over a period of few hours after initial alarming signals. Expert’s care is needed to take care of emboli & clots.
- Some suffer from long standing high blood pressures and suddenly the blood
vessel bleeds giving sudden & complete brain stroke in no time.
- What can be Psychological effects of Brain Stroke?
Different patients react differently to brain stroke. A lot depends on the person’s personality and his education and his belief about self and life and the family support.
Depression in brain stroke patients is largely because of unexpected limitations in life arising from lost movement control and not necessarily from stroke pathology. Therefore solution lies in solving the problem of movement and not in antidepressant drugs.
Patients who have a positive attitude and are willing to work hard get cured faster than those who have negative attitude.
Relatives also play a role in recovery of brain stroke. Some relatives, who are half informed or misinformed, sometimes get carried away by quacks and their hollow promises and do more damage to the patient than one can gauge.
Some relatives are extremely responsible and look after the patient in the right direction under the guidance of expert and are a good support not only to the patient but a support also to the rehabilitation team.Back to top
He must learn the DON’T'S along with DO’S.
- He must become responsible and contribute for the self equally actively along with the rest of the rehabilitation team.
- He must know that he cannot be a passive recipient if he wants a complete cure.
- He must believe in himself and in his ability to go through the rigorous and disciplined training to reach to the finest recovery in shortest possible period.
- Incorrect understanding about exercises and wrong input to the recovering brain turns the recovery into development of abnormal movement.
- Pessimism about brain stroke recovery is not so uncommon among the health professional. This must not be allowed to become contagious to the brain stroke patients & his support system.
- Some experts, out of ignorance announce to the patient – “it takes time” patient waits for months & years in great despair when instead of normal movement what appears is the abnormal movement making the condition permanent for the rest of his life.
- Recovery can continue even after years of stroke.