Stroke

Brings additional support to clients of the QEF Care and Rehabilitation Centre

Disability charity Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation for Disabled People (QEF) has announced a new partnership with the Stroke Association in Surrey for clients of their Care and Rehabilitation Centre. The partnership will see stroke clients on the East Surrey NHS stroke pathway receive one to one support with their transition home, helping to reduce anxiety and [...]

Known as the miracle treatment for stroke, thrombectomy, in some cases has stroke patients who received the treatment leaving hospital the next day. However, this life saving treatment is not made available as much as you would think, with only a handful of hospitals in the UK who can carry out the treatment. Dr Sanjeev [...]

Driving after a stroke can be difficult due to the physical and cognitive impairments caused by stroke, charities like East Anglian DriveAbility help to get stroke survivors back behind the wheel and driving confidently. Here, CEO of East Anglian DriveAbility, Yvette Bateman, gives SR Times professional insight into what stroke survivors eager to get back [...]

On the 26th May, a documentary from the Stroke Association follows the journey of three stroke survivors and the challenges they face living with aphasia, is set to be released to stream. Titled When the Words Away Went, the documentary film is a collaboration between the Stroke Association and RWD Films, it is also the [...]

High-tech Powerbead device set to support moderate to severe impairments

In its latest annual review of quality improvement advances in stroke care studies, the journal Stroke highlights updates in the field. The review authors include Regenstrief Institute Research Scientist Dawn Bravata, M.D., and colleagues highlight updates in the field. Dr Bravata, says: “Quality improvement exists to ensure that every patient with stroke or at risk [...]

Credit: North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust A university student has opened up about having a stroke at just 23-years-old and believing it was just the ‘world’s worst hangover’. Jameel Razak had visited a pub with friends and woke up with symptoms of a severe headache and sickness, the usual signs of a hangover. [...]

According to a new study, the number of deaths worldwide due to ischaemic stroke is set to increase to nearly 5 million by 2030. During a period of 29 years between 1990 and 2019, the cases of death from ischaemic stroke leaped from 2 million to more than 3 million. The study, published in Neurology, [...]

Experts from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) have urged women to get a simple health check-up in order to help prevent their risk of stroke.  The experts say that all women should know their blood pressure. ESC spokesperson Professor Angela Maas, says: “Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in women. “The risk [...]