Showing posts with label stroke patients. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stroke patients. Show all posts
Monday, May 12, 2014
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
ACUPUNCTURE WITH STIMULATOR SUBTITLE: ALTERNATIVE CURE FOR STROKE SURVIVORS
Stroke
survivors now turn to traditional Chinese cures combined with modern technology
to speed up recovery and reclaim their lives. Chinese medical theory cites that
excesses or deficiencies in food intake, work, exercise, emotions, and so on,
can cause illness. More people are discovering just how effective modern alternative
health and therapeutic treatment is in healing ailment raging from tension and
fatigue to pain and serious illness like strokes.
Majority
of stroke patients are left with some forms of permanent disability that
interferes with normal daily activities, such as walking, speech, vision,
understanding, reasoning and memory. To ease their condition there is various
treatments and rehabilitation involves using a mirror. It is believed that if a
person who has had a stroke watches how the unaffected side of his or her body
moves, it can give visual clues to help the person move the affected side.
Traditional
Chinese medicine which is acupuncture employs the additional use of a machine
to stimulate the needles and, in effect, provide relief where needed. Acupuncture
is one Chinese treatment, which has been intensively researched on, challenged
and corroborated by western doctors. The journal of American Association of
Anatomist indicated that acupuncture points correspond to areas where
connective tissues are thickest and which contains many nerve endings. Far from
being a fleeting trend, acupuncture has become an accepted health care
practice. It involves science intersecting with nature.
Electrotherapy
is among the services, which offers holistic and integrated approach based on
the intrinsic flow- and – energy balance theory of health and healing. It has
proven to be a very effective treatment, especially when administered within
one year after a person suffers a stroke. It is able to help improve blood
circulation, speech, and motor facilities. A stoke is a brain damage cause by
lack of blood flow to a portion of the brain. It results in permanent damage to
the brain tissue- and in many cases permanent disability for the patient. In
addition to physical consequences like speech disability and paralysis, stroke
survivors often deal with the psychological effects, like feeling depressed,
angry and frustrated at their inability to perform tasks that, before the
stroke were easy or automatic.
The person’s general ability to
take part in a rehabilitation program after the stroke is important
consideration when decisions are being made about rehabilitation.
Rehabilitation begins as soon as possible after a person is admitted to the
hospital
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