Stroke Survivors

Caregivers of people who experience a severe stroke experience high levels of anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress in the first year after the patient leaves the hospital, a new study finds.

Providing early care for pressure injuries during stroke rehab may help improve patients’ clinical outcomes and reduce associated costs, investigators say.

“Depression is not only a post-stroke issue, but also a pre-stroke phenomenon,” researchers say.

The strategy of early tracheostomy, compared with a standard approach, did not significantly improve survival without severe disability at six months, investigators say. 

Medically complex stroke survivors who participated in modified cardiac rehab had 76% lower mortality over the following year, investigators say.

A group of Australian researchers are calling for improvements in acute stroke care, after a study they conducted showed that nearly two-thirds of stroke patients fail to survive more than a decade and...

The prescription Vivistim System is designed to be used along with rehabilitation exercises in patients recovering from chronic ischemic stroke, the agency announced Friday.

Exercising the equivalent of three to four hours of walking each week halved the long-term mortality rate of older stroke survivors, investigators say.

New findings suggest that people accumulate brain pathologies that may measurably impact their lives well before a stroke occurs, investigators say.

Vagus nerve stimulation during post-stroke rehabilitation can significantly boost the improvement rate of arm and hand function, a new study finds.