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Natural Cures for Problems with Stroke
Stroke occurs in 3 forms, Ischaemic Stroke, Haemorrhagic Stroke and Transient Ischaemic Attack.
Stroke occurs when the supply of blood to the brain is disrupted and the part of the grain that it feeds is damaged, sometimes irreparably.
Ischaemic stroke occurs if there is a blockage of an artery in the brain by a clot (embolism). This is usually a blood clot, but may be fat globules in the case of a long limb fracture.
Haemorrhagic stroke if there is a bleed from a weakened or malformed artery (this a common cause of subarachnoid haemorrhage). The weakness or malformation ruptures due to a spike of high blood pressure.
Transient Ischaemic Attack is due to a temporary disruption due to spasm or some other problem of the artery which resolves restoring the blood supply and relieving the symptoms.
Early Stroke symptoms can include sudden weakness or paralysis affecting one side of the body, visual disturbances including loss of vision on one side or blurring, speech problems, dizziness, swallowing problems and headache.
The early symptoms may remain but for most patients there should be some improvement. However many stroke patients have Mobility Problems
Stroke Treatments
Modern Western Medicine
The treatment depends on the cause and thus on accurate diagnosis. Drugs like Warfarin and Aspirin that are used for ischaemic strokes thin the blood and reduce clotting and are thus dangerous in haemorrhagic stroke where bleeding has been the problem. Most treatment is supportive.
Complementary Therapy
Please help us to help you by letting your practitioner know about Natural Cures from Shared Care so that they might contact us (email to:- editor(at)shared-care.com) with their evidence to add their therapy to this list.
The therapies/educational systems shown below have been noted as helpful for Stroke
| Biofeedback |
| Nutritional Therapy |
| Acupuncture |
| Hypnosis |
| Massage |
| Meditation |
| Naturopathy |
| Reflexology |
| Chinese Herbal Medicine |
| Neurolinguistic Programming |
Please also check out Approaches Individual to the Practitioner for lists of those whose approaches don't fall into any specific category.
The following practitioners have indicated that they have a special interest in Stroke
Please click on the "more.." button for fuller details.
Natural Cures for Problems with Stroke Blog
Add your contributions to the "Natural Cures for Problems with Stroke" blog for this page. The button is at the bottom of the page or follow this link to the blog for this page. These can be absolutely anything related to the topic of this page that needs an answer from other members of the community, or a space for you to complain about or comment on anything related to that topic.
Stroke Support Groups
The home country of the group is listed. Most will provide more information, advice, contacts and help wherever you live:-
| Stroke Foundation | Australia | National |
| Heart and Stroke Foundation | Canada | National |
| Stroke Recovery Canada | Canada | National |
| Stroke Survivors Association of Ottawa | Canada | Ottawa |
| behindthegray.net | Great Britain | National |
| Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland | Great Britain | Scotland |
| Different Strokes | Great Britain | National |
| The Stroke Association | Great Britain | National |
| Volunteer Stroke Scheme | Ireland | National |
| Stroke Foundation of New Zealand | New Zealand | National |
| Children's Hemiplegia & Stroke Association | United States of America | National |
| National Stroke Association | United States of America | National |
| Post Stroke Help | United States of America | National |
| Stroke Help | United States of America | National |
Please email editor(at)shared-care.com with the name and URL of your suggestions for additional groups.
Places to Eat and Stay, Tourist, Town and Travel Guides
These sections are designed to provide help in finding restaurants, cafes, hotels, resorts, towns, beaches, travel companies and so on that are user friendly for our communities.
Shopping Zone
Editors Choice
Not all good things come from Amazon. The following are my choices of goodies that I have come across or in which I have had some involvement. If you want to add anything please email me (editor(at)shared-care.com) with details
| Surprisingly Gluten Free | Gluten free cookbook; lots of good recipes |
| Surprisingly Gluten Free | |
| Dr Michaels New Horizons | Self help tapes from No Panic |
| No Panic | |
| Lumie Sunlamp | Sunlamp for SAD (works for me! (ed)) |
| Lumie | |
| The FISH Plan for Migraine | Free downloadable book about treating migraine |
| The FISH Plan for Migraine | |
| The FISH Plan for Irritable Bowel Syndrome | Free downloadable book about treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome |
| The FISH Plan for IBS | |
| Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet | Necessary dietary reading for everyone |
| Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet | |
| The Complete Guide to Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free Cooking | Great cookbook by Glenis Lucas. Introduction by me! |
| The Complete Guide to Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free Cooking | |
