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...
Tag: Stroke Physiatry
Cognitive Testing: The Utility of Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE) and Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in Stroke Care and Research
Abstract The need for stratification and a common scale amongst clinicians to evaluate and rate patients cognitive status has led to development of clinical scales...
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...
The Neuroscience of Motor Control: Optimal to Pathologic Motor Performance
Abstract In humans, movement requires a well-coordinated control of sensory and motor mechanisms, yet mundane tasks such as walking or sitting upright could drastically be...