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 [...]
Filed under: Stroke Awareness | Tagged: stroke, Stroke Awareness, stroke recognition | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: Stroke Awareness | Tagged: stroke, Stroke Awareness, stroke statistics, strokenet, The Stroke Network | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: Stroke Awareness | Tagged: steve mallory, stroke, Stroke Awareness, stroke awareness month, strokenet, The Stroke Network | 2 Comments »
I am the President & CEO of The Stroke Network, http://www.strokenetwork.org/. We are a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. We have existed on the Internet, since February of 1996. Our mission is to provide on-line stroke support and information. We were the first on-line stroke support website on the Internet. This is one of the last good [...]
Filed under: Personal | Tagged: quadraplegia, quadraplegic, steve mallory, stroke, stroke network, strokenet | 10 Comments »
