BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Sleep apnea is a modifiable independent stroke risk factor and is associated with poor stroke outcomes. Mexican Americans have a higher incidence of stroke than non-Hispanic whites. In a biethnic community, we sought to determine the frequency of screening, testing, and treatment of sleep apnea among stroke survivors and to compare self-perceived risk of sleep apnea with ...

BACKGROUND Mexican Americans and non-Hispanic blacks have higher stroke recurrence rates and lower rates of secondary stroke prevention than non-Hispanic whites. As a potential explanation for this disparity, we assessed racial/ethnic differences in access to physician care and medications in a national sample of US stroke survivors. METHODS Among all 4,864 stroke survivors aged≥45 years who ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Medication access is crucial to secondary stroke prevention. We assessed medication access and associated barriers to care across region and time in a national sample of US stroke survivors. METHODS Among all 5840 black or white stroke survivors aged > or =45 years responding to the National Health Interview Survey years 1997 to 2004, we examined inability to afford med...

BACKGROUND Currently, the key advocacy in neuroscientific studies for stroke rehabilitation is that therapy should be directed towards task specificity performed with multiple repetitions. Circuit Class Therapy (CCT) is well suited to accomplish multiple task-specific activities. However, while repetitive task practice is achievable with circuit class therapy, in stroke survivors repetitive act...

Abstract Background Abnormal intermuscular coordination limits the motor capability of stroke-affected upper limbs. By evaluating in affected limb under various biomechanical task constraints, impact a stroke on control can be analyzed and coordination-based rehabilitation strategies developed. In this study, we investigated after during isokinetic movements. Methods Sixteen chronic survivors e...

PURPOSE To synthesize qualitative studies on adjusting after stroke, from stroke survivors' and carers' perspectives, and to outline their potential contribution to an understanding of resilience. METHODS A systematic review of qualitative studies in peer reviewed journals from 1990 to 2011 was undertaken. Findings from selected studies were summarized and synthesized and then considered alon...

Spasticity, contracture and muscle weakness often occur together poststroke and cause considerable motor impairments to stroke survivors. The underlying changes in contractile properties of muscle fascicles are still not clear. The purpose of this study was to investigate the contractile property changes of the medial gastrocnemius muscle fascicles poststroke. Ten stroke survivors and ten healt...

The physical and cognitive sequelae resulting in functional disabilities after Stroke has an influence on the quality of life (QoL) stroke survivors. objective study was to assess specific among A Quantitative descriptive which 50 survivors attending OPD a tertiary care hospital month were taken using convenient sampling. Their Quality Life assessed 12 domains Specific (SS-QOL). Data analyzed i...

BACKGROUND The importance of long term rehabilitation for people with stroke is increasingly evident, yet it is not known whether such services can be materialised in countries with limited community resources. In this study, we explored the perception of rehabilitation professionals and people with stroke towards long term stroke rehabilitation services and potential approaches to enable provi...

PURPOSE We drew on an interdisciplinary research design to examine stroke survivors' experiences of living with stroke and with technology in order to provide technology developers with insight into values, thoughts and feelings of the potential users of a to-be-designed robotic technology for home-based rehabilitation of the hand and wrist. METHOD Ten stroke survivors and their family carers...