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Treating Hemiplegia and Hemiparesis After Stroke
After a stroke, it’s common to experience weakness or paralysis on one side of the body, depending on which side of the brain your stroke occurred. Right-sided weakness or paralysis is caused by an injury to the left side of the brain, where the areas that handle language and memory are. Left-sided weakness or paralysis is caused by an injury to the right side of the brain, which contains the areas that control facial recognition and nonverbal behavior. Although hemiplegia and hemiparesis sound very similar—in fact, both derive from “hemi,” a Greek word that means half—they do have distinct differences. Let’s...
Saebo’s Favorite Inspirational Quotes for Stroke Survivors
Recovering after a stroke can seem like a path that is both endless and full of obstacles. The key to resilience lies in staying optimistic and dedicating your efforts to getting better. Finding this motivation requires you to dig deep, and that’s the hardest of all. When you’re finding it difficult to work on rehab activities and kindle good spirits, the words of others who have faced down life’s challenges will help you find the will to keep fighting. Below are ten of our favorite quotes to inspire hope in stroke survivors. “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” —Meister Eckhart “Never give up on a...
Coping With Emotional Changes After Stroke
As a stroke survivor, you can face major life changes. In the aftermath of a stroke, you may experience a sense of loss that is rooted in the feeling that you’ve lost the life you had before your stroke, or your independence. These strong emotional reactions take a toll. It is normal to experience emotions ranging from frustration, anxiety, and depression to a sense of grief, or even guilt, anger, and denial after such a monumental change. Realizing that these emotions are normal, and that you are not alone in experiencing them, is an important step to acknowledging and coping with them...
What to Expect when Recovering from a Stroke
After experiencing a stroke, survivors can begin to recover through rehabilitation. However, recovery from stroke is a process that survivors need to continue throughout their lives. Formal stroke rehabilitation is important for survivors to regain their independence and control of body movements and functions. Although no two survivors will go through the rehabilitation process the same way or follow the same timeline, rehabilitation usually helps improve mental, physical, and emotional functions within the first few weeks following the incident. Over time, stroke survivors can continue to improve, even years after starting rehabilitation. It is important for survivors to remember there is hope for recovery,...
