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• Title:Life after stroke : the guide to recovering your health and preventing another stroke / Joel Stein, Julie Silver, and Elizabeth Pegg Frates ; foreword by Robert J. Wityk.
  
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• Author/Creator:Stein, Joel, 1961-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Silver, J. K. (Julie K.), 1965-
  Frates, Elizabeth Pegg, 1967-
  
• Published/Created:Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
  

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  • Call Number: WL355 .S742 2006
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Cerebrovascular disease--Patients--Rehabilitation--Popular works.
  Cerebrovascular disease--Prevention--Popular works.
  
• Medical Subjects: Stroke--Popular Works.
  
• Description:xv, 337 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Johns Hopkins Press health book.
  
• Summary:Every 45 seconds someone in the United States has a stroke. The survivors -- about five million at any given time -- face a host of physical, practical, and emotional challenges. In this compassionate guide, physicians who treat people with stroke cover the path to recovery with practical advice on treatment, rehabilitation, and lifestyle changes that can help prevent a recurrence. The authors begin by explaining how stroke occurs and how different parts of the brain are injured. They explain diagnostic tools such as CT scans and MRIs, as well as medications used to prevent and treat stroke. The authors, who are rehabilitation specialists, recommend ways that stroke survivors can heal optimally. Finally, they offer numerous suggestions to help survivors reduce the risk of another stroke, including their Stroke Savvy exercise and diet plans. Featuring stories from patients and information on promising new treatments, Life After Stroke offers hope and optimism to stroke survivors and their families.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [309]-324) and index.
  
• ISBN:0801883636 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  9780801883637 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  0801883644 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  9780801883644 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:List of tables and figures
  Foreword / Robert J. Wityk
  Acknowledgments
  pt. 1. Understanding stroke
  ch. 1. Understanding stroke and its consequences
  ch. 2. How strokes affect our brains and bodies
  ch. 3. Tests your doctor may order
  pt. 2. STroke recovery
  ch. 4. Minimizing early post-stroke disability and complications
  ch. 5. Maximizing recovery from a stroke
  ch. 6. Post-stroke medical and social issues
  pt. 3. Preventing stroke : medical issues
  ch. 7. Risk factors for having a stroke : an introduction
  ch. 8. Heart and blood vessel conditions and stroke
  ch. 9. High blood pressure and stroke
  ch. 10. Diabetes and stroke
  ch. 11. Other causes of stroke
  ch. 12. Genetics and stroke
  ch. 13. Medications that help prevent stroke
  ch. 14. When surgery is an option. pt. 4. Preventing stroke : lifestyle issues
  ch 15. Diet and stroke
  ch. 16. Exercise and stroke
  ch. 17. How smoking, alcohol, and illegal drugs affect stroke risk
  pt. 5. Looking to the future
  ch. 18. Research on the horizon
  ch. 19. Prevent another stroke by taking charge
  Resources
  Notes
  Index.