Ischemic Stroke and Hemorrhagic Stroke Therapy and Treatment
by Ricker Polsdorfer, MD
The treatment and management of stroke involves enormous commitments of
time and personnel. After surgical treatment and/or medication, the focus
of treatment shifts to rehabilitation.
Having a stroke will dramatically change your
lifestyle. But the changes are so varied that they cannot
be predicted even after the acute event.
You may recover completely from a stroke days, weeks, or months
later. A stroke can leave you permanently impaired or the
effects may be minimal.
The days and weeks after your first stroke will be an entirely
new world to you, a world of hard work to recover and retrain
whatever functions
the stroke deprived you of—speech, walking, use of an arm or leg—and
to redirect your life so that you can profit most from your
remaining abilities.
Treatment involves the following:
Lifestyle changes
Medications
Surgery
Other treatments - Rehabilitation
SOURCES:
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 14th ed. McGraw-Hill;1998.National
Stroke Association
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Last reviewed November 2003 by Andrew Wilner, MD, FACP
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