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Given the disease burden of stroke, prevention is an important public health concern. [86] Primary prevention is less effective than secondary prevention (as judged by the number needed to treat to prevent one stroke per year). [86] Recent guidelines detail the evidence for primary prevention in stroke. [87]
A transient ischemic attack (TIA), commonly known as a mini-stroke, is a temporary (transient) stroke with noticeable symptoms that end within 24 hours. A TIA causes the same symptoms associated with a stroke, such as weakness or numbness on one side of the body, sudden dimming or loss of vision, difficulty speaking or understanding language or slurred speech.
The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale, or NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS), is a tool used by healthcare providers to objectively quantify the impairment caused by a stroke and aid planning post-acute care disposition, though was intended to assess differences in interventions in clinical trials. The NIHSS was designed for the National ...
Cerebral infarction, also known as an ischemic stroke, is the pathologic process that results in an area of necrotic tissue in the brain (cerebral infarct). [1] In mid to high income countries, a stroke is the main reason for disability among people and the 2nd cause of death. [2]
Palilalia is defined as the repetition of the speaker's words or phrases, often for a varying number of repeats. Repeated units are generally whole sections of words and are larger than a syllable, with words being repeated the most often, followed by phrases, and then syllables or sounds.
Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as hemorrhagic stroke, is a sudden bleeding into the tissues of the brain (i.e. the parenchyma), into its ventricles, or into both. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 1 ] An ICH is a type of bleeding within the skull and one kind of stroke (ischemic stroke being the other).
Stroke, a trace of ink in handwriting; Stroke, a line that makes up part or all of a letter in typeface anatomy; Stroke, one of the two basic methods of drawing a path in vector graphics; Bar (diacritic) or stroke, a line drawn across a grapheme. Slash (punctuation), the typographical character, is also known as a "stroke"
Yoga for stroke rehabilitation. Based on low quality evidence, it is currently uncertain whether yoga has a significant benefit for stroke rehabilitation on measures of quality of life, balance, strength, endurance, pain, and disability scores. [91] Yoga may reduce anxiety and could be included as part of patient-centred stroke rehabilitation. [91]