Stroke - Rehabilitation

This information is intended to help stroke patients in their recovery. It includes advice on making healthy lifestyle changes, tracking your blood pressure and other important numbers and effectively communicating with your health team.

The Stroke Support Group Toolkit contains step-by-step guide to setting up a community-based support group, and includes templates for community notices, media advisories, press releases, as well as sample feedback and evaluation forms, agendas.

This website provides information for individuals who have had a stroke and for their families. It explains causes and symptoms of stroke, available rehabilitation, including different types of interventions and therapies.  After-stroke physical activity including aerobic exercises, is also clarified. The website provides a glossary of stroke related terms.

This guide is for people who had a stroke and for their families and other caregivers. Designed to help you to understand stroke and its effects, it gives tips and strategies to live a better life during the recovery and assists in finding services, healthcare providers and networks of stroke survivors to make this challenging journey easier.

After Stroke : Realizing the Possible, a program of March of Dimes Canada, is a national service offering support, education and community programs for stroke survivors, their caregivers and families. connects stroke survivors and their caregivers with a network of support that includes support groups and programs and other initiatives.

A Caregiver’s Guide to Stroke Recovery provides information and tips on how to be an effective caregiver and how to best motivate a stroke survivor to achieve optimal rehabilitation. The guide covers such important aspects of stroke recovery as spasticity, overcoming depression, drug coverage in Canada, physical rehabilitation and caregiver support.

Bridgepoint is a leading provider of stroke rehabilitation. It provides an integrated team approach to caring for stroke patients and helping them get back with their lives. This web page lists and briefly describes stroke rehabilitation programs available at the Bridgepoint hospital in Toronto, Ontario. It also provides access to the Stroke Education Series, which consists of six education modules designed to help patients with their recovery.

This section of the Heart and Stroke Foundation website provides information on various aspects of stroke recovery. These aspects include daily living challenges, emotional and physical changes, interaction with others, memory and more. There is also access to the searchable Directory of Stroke Community Resources and Services for all provinces of Canada.

This resource provides information on best practices and stroke recovery for young adults.

This directory for stroke survivors and their caregivers is helpful in finding local organizations, community health centres and support groups. It helps to locate programs and services such as home care support, counseling, specialized equipment, therapy, transportation, housing and many others.  Contact information includes websites and additional resources are also listed.

Memory loss is something that everyone experiences at times, often increasing with age or a neurological problem such as a stroke. Here are some techniques that will help you encode and store information.

This article explains a swallowing disorder called dysphagia that often occurs as a result of stroke.  Ways of testing swallowing problems and treatment plans are also described.

 The Internet Stroke Center provides patients, their families, and caregivers with resources about how to recognize the symptoms of a stroke and understand how strokes are diagnosed and treated. Caregivers will find information that will ease the transition from hospital to home and guide both patient and caregiver through the recovery process.