A stroke can be a disease that is feared by many people.
In addition to resulting in disability on someone, a stroke can also cause
death.
Residual symptoms that appear after the attack of stroke
depends on several factors, such as age, the location
of the affected blood vessels, the type of stroke, how the extent of the parts
of the brain that are affected, and how quickly the initial handling of the
onset of an attack.
The following are some of the symptoms that affect the
rest of the body function after stroke, among others:
1. Body Weakness, stiffness, and impaired balance
Post-stroke, not
denying many sufferers complain of Member feels
has weak and it is still difficult to be driven. The occurrence of blockage or
rupture of vessels in the brain that most often is the cerebral arteries. A middle cerebral artery in the brain's blood funneling the majority of the parts of
the brain, so when he experienced the disorder will give more than one symptom.
Stiffness in limbs also sometimes complained of by the
sufferer. This stiffness is associated with lesions on the motor nerves are
exposed. In addition, sometimes the post-tremor attacks also occur in some
people. The symptoms of tremor would generally interfere with movement and
balance the body.
2. sensory Disorders
Sensory disorders such as touch
smooth and rough convey proprioceptive
and pointed to two different points related to the degree of weakness and the
severity of the stroke. It also will be associated with the recovery process.
Sensory and motor disorders in people with stroke are
very closely linked. Stroke sufferer who has both the disorder, tend to be lazy
to move because it was not able to.
If this is allowed, then it would increase the occurrence
of stroke-related pain, where rigid muscles will stimulate the production of
pain through propioceptor. So will cause a sensation of pain, burning or tingling
in the limbs.
3. Seizure
Stroke sufferers can experience symptoms of seizures,
especially in the case of a bleeding stroke. Seizures occur due to the
interruption of electricity transfers in the brain. In the case of a stroke,
the bleeding blood clots in a part of the brain is considered as foreign
matter, it can affect the electricity in the brain.
Usually by surgical operations to evacuate blood clots,
can help to reduce the risk of seizures. Sufferers should also wear an antidote
to seizures as a preventive medication, duration of drug an antidote to seizures also depends on the
condition of the survivors.
4. cognitive Disorders
Stroke and impaired recall are two things are related. A stroke can cause vascular dementia,
i.e. memory damage caused by disorders of the blood vessels of the brain.
Cognitive disorders do not appear
suddenly after stroke but will appear
later in the day. Usually, family members
would easily forget sufferers complain of, confused and difficult to concentrate.
5. mood disorders
Not denying a stroke can cause disability and functional
disorders. Some manifestations of symptoms generally occur on neurobehavior post-stroke
depression is one of them. The depression that occurs in people with stroke is
affected by many factors such as the degree of physical disability that occurs,
the location of the affected blood vessels, and previous patients as well as
personality traits or no previous history of depression.
Post-stroke depression generally appears at 3 months in
the beginning, after a stroke. Some of the symptoms like many silent, decreased
appetite, withdraw from the surrounding environment.
When the symptoms of depression that appears are not handled early, would hamper the process
of rehabilitating and will lose the
spirit of the survivors. Needed moral support from their families and the
environment in the process of rehabilitation of stroke sufferers so that spared
from depression and has a passion for the back.
6. Disorders of speech and language
Disorders of speech and language in stroke patients
called aphasia. Aphasia includes not only the ability to speak and speak
decreases, the ability to write and read also affected.
There are several kinds of aphasia that generally occur
in stroke patients. First, global
aphasia, it is the most severe type of aphasia. Sufferers do not understand the
talk and hard to read, write and speak.
The second type is the Broca's
aphasia, where sufferers understand the talks but the difficulty to speak. The
third is aphasia Wernick, where patients
could speak and speak like people in General. But what often has no meaning and
no connection to the caller.
The necessary therapy
Sequelae which occur in stroke cannot disappear directly,
but it can be restored with some therapies that could be done, among other
things:
- Physical therapy – practicing standing, walking, sitting, bending limbs, etc. This therapy works to train physical soundness of the sufferers and to prevent stiffness in muscles.
- Speech therapy – the practice of communication and language can do. This therapy helps sufferers practice give the letters or words clearly. Nonverbal communication such as body language can be used, if not yet able to use verbal communication.
- Psychology therapy – this therapy is useful for reducing the stress experienced by the stroke and prevent the occurrence of depression in people with.
In addition to doing therapy, surely mandatory sufferers
taking any medication that has been given by doctors and implement healthy
eating patterns. This is done to support the process of rehabilitation of
sufferers in order to get a good result and prevent the occurrence of the next
stroke.
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