Astroke rehabilitation center is a multidisciplinary treatment covering the overall treatment and care of stroke patients.
What is a Brain Attack (stroke)?
Stroke; It is a condition in which the body cannot fulfill its cognitive functions as a result of blockage in the arteries that feed the brain.
How does a stroke occur?
Stroke defines the dysfunctions that occur in the brain due to problems in the blood vessels. Vascular diseases are the leading cause of death in our country. Diseases in the cerebral vessels are the second most common cause of death, right after blockages in the heart vessels. In addition to causing death, stroke can lead to severe disability, incapacity for work and the need for care.
In particular, paralysis that occurs after strokes, i.e. the weakening of a limb of the body, is a very common condition that significantly affects the person's capacity to work.
What are the Types of Stroke?
There are some subtypes of strokes;
These are called blockages and hemorrhages.
In the occlusion type; a vessel in the brain is blocked for various reasons and cerebral circulation is disrupted.
In hemorrhages; blood leaks from a vessel into the brain tissue.
What are the Symptoms of Stroke?
Regardless of the cause, the symptoms of strokes are similar.
These are
- Weakness, i.e. paralysis
- Speech impairment, i.e. aphasia
- Visual and other perception impairment
- Balance and gait disorders
- After some strokes, especially cognitive functions may be impaired and dementia may occur.
How is a stroke treated?
Treatment of strokes is now "urgent", as it is for heart attacks. Therefore, strokes are now called "brain attack, brain crisis".
Newly developed treatment methods now try to dissolve the clot that causes cerebrovascular occlusion and prevent cerebrovascular occlusion-induced decreased blood flow to the brain and tissue damage.
This new treatment method can only be applied within the first 3 hours. Therefore, from now on, stroke patients should be transported to emergency services as quickly as heart attacks and brain imaging techniques should be used to determine whether the stroke is due to vascular occlusion or cerebral hemorrhage.
If it is a stroke due to vascular occlusion and the patient can be made eligible for this treatment within the first 3 hours, clot-dissolving treatment can be applied. Therefore, with this clot-dissolving treatment, the phrase "time is brain" has emerged. Every second lost leaves irreversible damage to the brain.