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Hemiplegia, in its most severe form, is the complete paralysis of one entire side of the body. Either hemiparesis or hemiplegia can result from a variety of medical causes, including congenital conditions, trauma, tumors, traumatic brain injury and stroke.
Sudden weakness or numbness on one side of your body (including in your leg) Sudden loss of vision or blurred vision in one or both eyes Sudden difficulty speaking or thinking of words
In most cases, the symptoms affect only one side of the body (unilateral). The defect in the brain is usually on the opposite side of the body. However, since these pathways also travel in the spinal cord and any lesion there can also produce these symptoms, the presence of any one of these symptoms does not necessarily indicate stroke.
For example, a stroke affecting the right parietal lobe of the brain can lead to neglect for the left side of the visual field, causing a patient with neglect to behave as if the left side of sensory space is nonexistent (although they can still turn left). In an extreme case, a patient with neglect might fail to eat the food on the left half ...
unsteady gait (unsteadiness in walking) muscular rigidity, resistance to passive movements of the limbs ; paralysis of a limb (monoparesis) or a larger area on one side of the body (hemiparesis) paralysis head and eye movements; inability to express oneself linguistically, described as an expressive aphasia (Broca's aphasia)
W - Walking - If you suddenly can not walk due to dizziness, or your try to walk and you shift to one side. F - Facial droop - one side of the face is droopy; A - Arm Weakness - especially one side being weak; S - Speech - slurred, confused, and/or absent speech; T - Terrible Headache/Dizziness (often described as thunderclap headache or ...
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