Category: Stroke

Dr. Judy Gooch, a rehabilitation physician gives a basic overview of spasticity.

Symptoms of spasticity can vary from being mild stiffness or tightening of muscles to painful and uncontrollable spasms. Pain or tightness in joints is also common in spasticity.
– Muscle stiffness, causing movements to be less precise and making certain tasks difficult to perform
– Muscle spasms, causing uncontrollable and often painful muscle contractions
– Involuntary crossing of the legs
– Muscle and joint deformities
– Muscle fatigue
– Inhibition of longitudinal muscle growth
– Inhibition of protein synthesis in muscle cells

– Aphasia, aphasia, aphasia!
– I suspect that not really having any notions about strokes probably helped me, as it turns out that strokes are incredibly individual. For example, my biggest problem is fatigue. Although you often hear from survivors that tiredness is an issue, for me it is the issue; the part of my brain that controls sleep was affected, and I basically didn’t dream for the better part of a decade. It turns out that dreaming is a critical thing for being awake the next day.
– Stroke happens when blood flow to a part of your brain is cut off. Without the oxygen in blood, brain cells start dying within minutes. A stroke can happen in two main ways Something blocks the flow of blood, or something causes bleeding in the brain.

Wernicke’s VS Broca’s Aphasia

In Wernicke’s aphasia, the ability to understand the meaning of spoken words and sentences is impaired. Producing speech is not very affected. Therefore Wernicke’s aphasia is also referred to as ‘fluent aphasia’ or ‘receptive aphasia’.

Broca’s (Expressive)

Individuals with Broca’s aphasia have trouble speaking fluently but their comprehension is relatively preserved. This type of aphasia is also known as non-fluent or expressive aphasia.
Patients have difficulty producing grammatical sentences and their speech is limited mainly to short utterances of less than four words.

Wernicke’s VS Broca’s Aphasia
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This is a video recording of an episode of the Brain Health Revolution Podcast, with Ayesha and Dean Sherzai. In this episode, we explore the term aphasia, which has become a popular term in the media after Bruce Willis announced his diagnosis. We discuss the definition, presentation, the different conditions that present with aphasia, management and treatment.

Underatanding Bruce Willis’ Aphasia

Self range of motion is the next step for increasing arm recovery after stroke once a stroke survivor has gained enough strength in the strong arm to lift the weak arm. It stretches muscles, joints, nerves, and fascia. It also improves proprioception, the sense of where the arm is and how it is positioned, to help the brain reconnect. It is best done with the patient lying down on a bed so gravity can actually help regain full range of motion. All of the exercises can also be done in sitting up in a support chair.

Self range of motion

Hello, SAY and friends! Today, I talked with Matthew. He lives in Long Island, New York. At 16 years old, Matt loved baseball and won the championship, but he had heart surgery. Ten years later, in 2019, he had heart surgery again and had a stroke. He did not speak and moved the body.
He has a YouTube channel, “A Matter of Matt.” He is sharing his life and what his plans are for the future.

Matthew YouTube channel: / @amatterofmatt

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Director of the Aphasia Laboratory at the University of South Carolina, where he seeks to clarify the relationship between brain damage and speech/language impediments. His work has led to significant breakthroughs in helping stroke victims regain their ability to speak. Dr. Julius Fridriksson at TEDxColumbiaSC

Enabling fluent speech