Stroke - consequences

In case of stroke, the brain suffers because of blood circulation disorders or hemorrhages. The consequences depend on the vastness of the stroke, on which area and how much it has suffered, and appear in both ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes. Some violations gradually pass, others persist for a long time or for life. For more accurate localization of the affected area, strokes are divided into stem, hemispheric and stroke cerebellum.

Stroke stroke

When strokes of the brain stem are interrupted impulses coming from the cortex to the muscles, therefore, first of all, there is a violation of the movements of the limbs and muscles of the face. Speech, swallowing, and strabismus may also be disturbed.

Stroke of cerebellum

First of all, it causes a lack of coordination. It can also provoke a violation of perception, spatial thinking, personality change.

The main consequences of stroke:

1. The most common consequence of strokes is the weakening of any muscle group (paresis) and paralysis. Most often, one half of the body is affected, depending on which hemisphere the brain has suffered. With a hemorrhage in the left lobe, the right side suffers, and if the left side is damaged, the right side. Often paresis or paralysis of the limbs is accompanied by stiffness in the muscles and joints.
2. Violation of coordination and instability during movement occur when the brain region responsible for the equilibrium is damaged, and paresis of certain muscle groups.
3. Asphasia (speech disturbance) manifests itself in difficulties with pronunciation and perception of speech, reading and writing. Asphasia is sensory, when the patient hardly understands another's speech, and mnesticheskaya, in which the patient is experiencing difficulties with the answers to questions posed. In most cases, asphasia is mixed, and most often develops with lesions of the left (for the left-handed - right) hemisphere of the brain.
4. Disturbance of swallowing, which can lead to the fact that food instead of the esophagus falls into the respiratory throat. This is the consequence most often leads to the development in patients after a stroke of severe pneumonia.
5. Visual disturbances caused by the damage to the brain area responsible for the collection and processing of visual information. The patient can double in the eyes or fall half the field of view.
6. Difficulties with the perception and interpretation of the surrounding world, in which a person may lose some basic skills, because he is unable to perceive and analyze information - for example, he can not pour water into a glass or say what time, looking at the clock.
7. Cognitive impairments, in which memory deterioration occurs, reduces the ability to think logically, to perceive and process information.
8. Disorders of the psyche, which are expressed in depression or excessive aggression, irritability, unmotivated mood swings, sleep disorders. High fatigue and sleep problems are observed in almost all patients the first days after a stroke.
9. Violation of bowel movements and urination. This is a very common consequence of a stroke, but, most often, this function comes back to normal within a few weeks.
10. Epilepsy - develops in a significant (7 to 20%) number of patients.
11. Pain syndromes and changes in sensations, such as increase or decrease of light, color, heat sensitivity. Breaking the pain threshold.

To treat the effects of stroke, restorative therapy is used in conjunction with taking medications to maintain the body and prevent complications. Widespread treatment of various folk remedies and herbs.