The overarching goal of physical therapy rehabilitation is to return the individual to as close to the premorbid level of function as possible or, alternatively, to maximize a person’s current potential for function and maintain it as long as possible. This goal is achieved by promoting changes in the individual, by altering his or her physical health elderly or social environments, or by implementing a combination of both strategies. (more…)

If you should become a victim of this debilitating health issue, you need to know how to regain lost abilities after a stroke. Hopefully, you have recognized the signs of an impending stroke and have called for immediate help. In so doing, you probably saved your brain from further damage or death. But, even if medical assistance is right on your doorstep, the struggle you are now facing may seem insurmountable, at least in the beginning.

In the beginning, it may seem easier to simply give into a stroke (more…)