Speech therapy in stroke (cerebrovascular accident- CVA)

Stroke (CVA, Cerebrovascular Accident) — Causes and Symptoms

Stroke (CVA, Cerebrovascular Accident) — Causes and Symptoms

Cerebrovascular Accident Risk Factors in Patients with Stroke in Nourology Ward of Ali Ibn Abitaleb Hospital, Rafsanjan

Background: C.V.A is an important health problem.  Efforts to reduce the incidence of C.V.A are essential and such attempts should be based on the knowledge of risk factors.  In this study C.V.A risk factors were evaluated. Materials and Methods: We used a case control method. The cases comprised of 146 patients admitted to stroke unit with acute stroke.  The controls comprised of 147 particip...

The effect of low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on the treatment of aphasia caused by cerebrovascular accident (CVA)

Background: Aphasia is a common outcome of Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA) in which clinical interventions have limited effectiveness. Some evidence suggests that noninvasive stimulation of the brain can have beneficial effects in the treatment of CVA induced aphasia. In patients with motor aphasia, repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) is used to facilitate long-term improvement i...

Effects of thoraco-lumbar electric sensory stimulation on knee extensor spasticity of persons who survived cerebrovascular accident (CVA).

Spasticity is mostly due to an excess of impulses to alpha motor neurons partly resulting from a change of interneuron activity. Low threshold afferent has been reported to change the activity in interneuron. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of surface spinal paravertebral stimulation on knee extensor spasticity. Ten survivors of stroke, with knee extensor spasticity, rec...