Last year, a severe stroke put a halt to Donald “Ozzie” Verstraete’s independence and led him to neurological rehabilitation at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano. Now, he’s back on the ...

Specialized physical therapy plays a defining role in post-stroke recovery, influencing mobility, independence and long-term quality of life. For health care leaders and clinicians, referral decisions ...

Stroke recovery represents one of the most challenging yet hopeful journeys in medicine. While the brain damage from a stroke cannot be reversed, the remarkable ability of the human brain to rewire ...

When examining recovery during the first year after an ischemic stroke, a new study has found for daily tasks such as eating, dressing and driving, female participants experienced slightly worse ...

Imagine your brain as a bustling city with millions of interconnected highways carrying information at lightning speed. Now picture what happens when a major earthquake hits, destroying some of those ...

And while the severity of a stroke doesn't typically change the shape of recovery, it does affect the extent to which a person will ultimately improve, he said—a person with a mild stroke may regain ...

Each year, thousands of stroke survivors are left with hemianopia, a condition that causes loss of half of their visual field (the “vertical midline”). Hemianopia severely affects daily ...