Tips for Recovering from a Stroke

Video Transcript

"Outlet therapy and support. Some people can have a complete recovery after having a stroke. For others it may take several months. For some people, they may have deficits for their rest of their life. And ultimately some people may die. They say about 30% of people who have a stroke end up dying from it. In terms of therapy after someone has had a stroke, there's physical therapy that can be done, there's also different forms of therapy that help improve the outcome. As a general rule, the worst the signs are when you show up at the emergency department, the worse the outcome is going to be in the long term. In spite of progress that has been made there is still a lot of improvements that need to be made that can be made that are out there. I'm going to summarize, again with this little picture here, this is just something from the Minnesota Stroke Association, it just says Act Fast. And basically it's just an acronym with FAST. F is for facial weakness; you're looking at facial weakness. A-arm weakness. S-speech difficulties. And then Time, so that means that time is brain, time you want to get them to the hospital as soon as possible. It's going to give the best probability of an outcome is going to be getting to the hospital quick. There's a few web links, a few other resources you can go to find out more information if you're interested about finding out more. I didn't specify the address but you can google it up and I'm sure you can find it. The American Stroke Association, National Stroke Association, and then University of Washington School of Medicine, Internet Stroke Center."