Rehabilitation after stroke

Rehabilitation after stroke

Strokes can lead to death or disability, but re-patient rehabilitation, through physical therapy and speech therapy and occupational therapy, can improve the body's functions after a stroke. Rehabilitation helps to improve the chances of successful healing of stroke by re-training the brain to think, understand, and improve the patient's ability to speech and movement and feeling process.

 There are two main objectives of rehabilitation: • to strengthen and re-teaching the patient to help improve the deficits caused by stroke.

• teach the patient how to live a normal life as much as possible within the limits of deficits. Rehabilitation of three types of processors: • Physical therapy to strengthen muscles and improve the ability to walk program consists. • speech therapy to re-education of patients on pronunciation and comprehension, reading, writing and problem-solving, ... etc. • occupational therapy to teach patients ways to do daily activities with the help of some tools, such as the modified utensils.

 Rehabilitation program begins as soon as the patient is medically stable situation becomes, after a few days of the stroke normally. The success of the program depends on the extent of the patient and family members willing to practice therapeutic exercise a day. And occupational therapists can make recommendations to make the home environment safer and easier to navigate the patient.

  an introduction

The strokes are very serious, and can lead to death or disability. And become rehabilitation and physical therapy and speech therapy and occupational therapy are necessary to improve the functions of the body after exposure to a stroke process. Help rehabilitation to re-train the brain to think, understanding and speech, movement and sense of process. This educational program helps to develop a better understanding of options for rehabilitation available to patients who have suffered strokes.

 Rehabilitation

Rehabilitation helps to improve the chances of successful healing process stroke. The first few days after stroke is very critical; where they can during this period that the brain swells, causing more damage it. In rare cases, the condition can lead to death! After a week of the stroke, the patient's condition from a change stop, has tended deficits observed in the beginning to improve automatically.

 The remaining problems after the improvement of disability, such as weakness and speech problems, you can hinder a patient lot. The process of rehabilitation to help restore some of the losses caused by the stroke. There are two main objectives of rehabilitation:

 Strengthening and re-teaching the patient to help him improve.
     Teaching the patient how to live a normal life as much as possible, within the limits of cases of disability.

Rehabilitation of three types of processors program consists.

     Physical therapy: strengthens muscles and improves the patient's ability to walk.
     Speech therapy aims to re-teach the patient about everything that has to do with Pronunciation. This includes how to speak, understand, read, write and solve problems, and so on.
     Professional treatment: patients learn different "tricks" that will help them to live a normal life as possible.

 Rehabilitation program starts when you become a patient's medical condition is stable, a few days after a stroke usually. To the success of rehabilitation, it is important for the patient and his family to cooperate and show enthusiasm. Although the patient is undergoing treatments a few times a week, but should be on him and his family practice therapeutic exercise a day.

 Although rehabilitation operations has greatly improved during the twentieth to the last thirty years, is still affected by strokes is sometimes unable to return to what they were before the injury. Therefore, it is important to continue to work to strengthen the skills and lack of sense of frustration.

 Physical therapy

The goal of physical therapy to strengthen muscles and improve the "walking skills." The physical therapy also helps to loosen muscles and joints that can become stiff in the arm or the leg covered by a stroke. Exercise is given to the patient and his family in order to strengthen weak muscle groups. We should practice this exercise several times a day.

 The physical therapist with the help of the patient to walk first. And uses the patient initially parallel columns to help him. With the growing skills of walking, the patient can be assisted with a tool to help to walk or a cane to navigate more efficiently. The hope is to be able to stroke patients with a time of walking without assistance. It is important that the patient exercises to walk only the existence of a physical therapist or a family member at his side; it is without the presence of an extra person to help, the patient may fall to the ground and break his hip or vertebra vertebrae.

Physical therapist may recommend using the collars of the arms or the legs to improve the patient's ability to move and work. These can be used hoops to prevent the foot from sagging or knee sprains.

Speech therapy

Pronunciation patient education and re-educate them about all the functions related Pronunciation processor works. These functions include, but are not limited to:

     Speak.
     Understanding.
     reading.
     Writing.
     Improve memory.
     solving problems.
     Dealing with numbers.

It is processed with the help of pronunciation exercises that help strengthen these activities in the brain recuperating. And just like physical therapy, it is very important to do these exercises over and over again! They should monitor patients when they issued checks, or take major decisions, to improve their situation completely.

 Occupational therapy

The occupational therapist with the help of patients to perform daily activities through the use of "tricks", tools and devices designed for this purpose. The occupational therapist to teach patients how to wear their clothes themselves, and bathe, eat and eat, shave, and cook, ... etc. For example, occupational therapist can teach patients how to use the "manipulator". "Manipulator" works as an extension of the arm of the patient, which is very handy to pick up objects without bending.

  It also helps, "Manipulator" patients to wear pants. Can professional handler to recommend using spoons and forks with large handles to help patients eat, if their hands were weak. Can professional handler suggest ways to change the order of the patient's home infected stroke, the movement to make it easier and safer. Processor Professional helps in the preparation of stroke patients for the installation of hoops that enhance their ability to do their jobs.

 As Hoops also mitigate the likelihood of severe stiffness in joints. Hoops can be used on the elbows, wrists, knees and ankles.

Conclusion

Although strokes can lead to severe disability, the Taq re new rehabilitation grant stroke survivors a greater opportunity to maintain their independence. It supports the rehabilitation of people with stroke success largely on the patient himself, and the nearby family. It should continue to exercise even after the improvement of the initial cases of impotence; these exercises give patients a better chance to return to normal life.