I was browsing the web today and came upon a stem cell website. I had my stroke over 14 years ago and thought that I understood how a stroke happened pretty clearly but boy did things become clearer today! I read what had to be the very best explanation of stroke I have ever read. [...]
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What is your knowledge about stroke? If you are reading my blog then you should have some interest, even a little, about stroke. I wrote a little 10 question test to see what you know. The test was not developed to purposely make you feel stupid. My objective was to show you how compelling the [...]
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Could you recognize if somebody was having a stroke? You probably think that you will NEVER need to know this! I guess that knowing this information is sort of like the need to know how to do CPR. It is good to know how to do it but chances are remote that you would actually [...]
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Everybody knows that stroke is the number 1 cause of serious permanent disability. They also know that stroke is the number 3 cause of death and every 45 seconds someone has one; between 500000 and 750000 Americans have a stroke every year. These are common well known statistics about stroke but what about the other [...]
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May is stroke awareness month! It’s our month to flaunt everything we know about stroke to the able-bodied. Stroke awareness is about honoring the millions that have fallen to stroke and trying to prevent this disease from continuing its deadly rampage. My theory is to try to get young people to understand what stroke is [...]
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