Promote functional recovery Prevent complications Physiological Cognitive/psychological Social Encourage functional recovery of the affected limbs Modulate muscle tone Experience normal posture Support and stabilise body segments Encourage compensatory movements of…
1970s fibrinogen I125 [5, 6, 25, 26] 1980s fibrinogen I125 [28, 29] 1990s Doppler USS, fibrinogen I125 venography [9, 30, 31] Early 2000 MRI dti [11] Late 2000 Doppler…
Recommendations Acute phase A. All wards and stroke units should have established assessment and management protocols for both urinary and faecal incontinence, and for constipation in stroke patients B….
Fig. 14.1 Data on prevalence of post-stroke fatigue in selected large studies (>100 patients) The onset of fatigue after stroke typically occurs early, during the acute hospital stay. In the…
Fig. 3.1 Frequency distribution of numbers of deaths and cause of death per week from stroke onset; weeks 7–12 have been compressed because of low absolute numbers (From Prosser et…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Ajay Bhalla and Jonathan Birns (eds.)Management of Post-Stroke Complications10.1007/978-3-319-17855-4_5 5. Infections After Stroke Mehool Patel1 and Angela Kulendran2 (1) General and Geriatric Medicine, University Hospital Lewisham, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, Lewisham,…
© 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…
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…
© 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…
© 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,…
