A Patient’s Perspective: The Emotional Burden of Stroke an Important Factor Clinicians often Overlook
A few years back, I was on my way to see a patient on the stroke unit. As I stood at the nursing station to...
Category: Stroke Physiatry
Posture and Balance: Neural Correlates of Postural Instability after Stroke and Other Movement Disorders
Abstract This paper explores the neural correlates of posture and balance after stroke, and provides visual examples of postural instability in a patient with watershed...
Neuro Exam: Clonus
Introduction Clinically, muscle tone is assessed by judging the resistance of a patient’s limb to passive stretch. Damage to the descending motor pathways that terminate...
Neuro Exam: Post-Stroke Hemiplegic Gait
One of the main characteristic features of post-stroke gait, is the hemiparetic or hemiplegic gait. It is important to note, that in acute settings, patients...