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HOW CAN SPEECH THERAPY HELP POST STROKE?

There are many ways to reduce your risk of having a stroke. These include checking your Blood pressure, reducing salt, limiting unhealthy food, consuming many fruit and vegetables, stop smoking, to exercise and to limit alcohol intake .

After a stroke does occurs, an individual may present with a vast set of difficulties. These range from the ability to speak and understand effectively, to read and write, to problem solve and to reason.

A Speech Therapist helps alleviate these difficulties by providing patient focused and individualised therapy services. We further assist patients who have difficulty with swallowing. We provide strengthening exercises, cognitive rehabilitation as well as compensatory strategies to ensure all round effective communicative skills.

Stokes have long lasting effects on patients and their families, speech therapy offers support for those affected by the effects of the stroke

STROKE AWARENESS AND PREVENTION

What is a stroke

A stroke is a serious life-threatening medicalcondition that happenswhen the blood supplyto part of the brain is cutoff.
It is so serious because it can either kill youor leave you disabled. The important thingis that there are ways to try prevent it.

Risk Factors & Causes

Risks Factors:

  • Old age
  • High blood pressure
  • High cholesterol
  • Diabetes

Like all organs, the brain needs the oxygen and nutrients provided by blood to function properly. If the supply of blood is restricted or stopped, brain cells begin to die. This can lead to brain injury, disability and possibly death.

Identification

Risks Factors:

There are ways to try prevent a stroke. It is important to know how to identify a stroke and what to do. The sooner you identify it and get to a hospital, the better.

Signs include:

  • Weakness on one side of the body
  • Numbness of the face
  • Unusual and severe headache
  • Vision loss
  • Numbness and tingling
  • Unsteady walk
  • Speech slurred or no speech at all or difficulty understanding you

TIA: A “mini stroke” lasts less than 24 hours. It gets better but you must still go to the hospital