Future Developments

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© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Ajay Bhalla and Jonathan Birns (eds.)Management of Post-Stroke Complications10.1007/978-3-319-17855-4_16 16. Future Developments Lalit Kalra1   (1) Department of Clinical Neurosciences, King’s College London, London, UK     Lalit Kalra Email: Lalit.kalra@kcl.ac.uk Abstract The…

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Swallowing and Nutritional Complications

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Disease-related Psychological Social and environmental Anorexia Depression Social instability Dementia Bereavement Financial issues Gastrointestinal symptoms Mental illness Social isolation Pain Psychosis Access to shops Co-morbidities, e.g. diabetes Anxiety Cooking and…

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Mental Consequences of Stroke

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© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Ajay Bhalla and Jonathan Birns (eds.)Management of Post-Stroke Complications10.1007/978-3-319-17855-4_15 15. Mental Consequences of Stroke Luis Ayerbe1   (1) Centre of Primary Care and Public Health, Barts and the London School of Medicine…

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Post-Stroke Pain

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© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Ajay Bhalla and Jonathan Birns (eds.)Management of Post-Stroke Complications10.1007/978-3-319-17855-4_13 13. Post-Stroke Pain Pippa Tyrrell1   and Anthony K. P. Jones1 (1) Stroke and Pain Research Groups, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, Salford Royal NHS Trust,…

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Post-Stroke Cognitive Impairment

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and Jonathan Birns2   (1) Department of Neurology, Atkinson Morley Wing, St George’s University Hospital, London, UK (2) Department of Ageing and Health, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK…

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Falls and Osteoporosis Post-Stroke

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Study Subjects Methods Findings Ugur et al. (2000) [20] 293 stroke patients discharged from an inpatient unit. 52 % male A standard questionnaire was posted to the patients or their…

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Management of Spasticity

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Fig. 10.1 The majority of descending pathways controlling spinal reflex excitability. (Inhibitory fibres are shown in grey and excitatory fibres are shown in black) There are two main contributory factors…

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Introduction

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Fig. 1.1 Timing of symptomatic complications after stroke. Results are expressed as the cumulative proportion (%) of patients who were noted to have a symptomatic complication in hospital during the…

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