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.

The report presents basic facts and statistics on stroke, stroke rehabilitation and recovery for stroke survivors in Canada. Report emphasizes vital role of caregivers, including family and friends, in stroke recovery. The section of the report "Calls for Action" outlines what individual Canadians, the government and health care providers can do to prevent stroke and improve chances of survival and recovery.

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.

Note: Print copies are available in the Patient and Family Library at Bridgepoint

This guide is for people who have had a stroke and for their families and other caregivers. It is designed to help understand stroke and its effects, give tips and strategies to live a better life during the recovery and assist in finding services, healthcare providers and networks of stroke survivors to help in this challenging journey.

Stroke Recovery Canada is a national service offering support, education and community programs for stroke survivors, their caregivers and families. Stroke Recovery Canada 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 stroke prevention, warning signs of stroke, hospital care and rehabilitation.

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.

This small book is a good introduction to aphasia. It explains causes of aphasia, speech and communication problems resulting from aphasia and other accompanying problems. The book also explains communication recovery process through therapy and the crucial role of family support in the speech and language recovery.

When Kate experienced a double brain-stem stroke her bright tomorrow turned into a dark timeless tunnel. The lessons she learned are a model for anyone who feels their goals are just out of reach. Kate's story connects the fragility of life with the power of the human spirit.

Written for stroke survivors, their caregivers, and loved ones, Stronger After Stroke presents a new and more effective treatment philosophy that is startling in its simplicity: stroke survivors recover by using the same learning techniques that anyone uses to master anything. It presents an upbeat, empowering and hopeful message that urges stroke survivors not to accept the status quo of stroke rehabilitation but to expect more and be actively invested in achieving optimal outcomes.

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.

Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven- year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist, experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. As she observed her mind deteriorate she also realized a possibility of alternating between the euphoria of the intuitive and kinesthetic right brain, in which she felt a sense of complete well-being and peace, and the logical, sequential left brain, which recognized she was having a stroke and enabled her to seek help before she was completely lost. She describes the eight-year process of rehabilitation and personal struggle leading to full recovery.

This easy-to-read book explains right-brain functions causes of stroke, and resulting communication and other problems. It gives suggestions for possible treatments and offers helpful strategies for family members on coping with changes in the person's personality and communication abilities.

One of the best defenders in Patriots history, Tedy Bruschi had a stroke in the prime of his football career. This is a powerful and uplifting story of challenges he faced on the road to recovery and his amazing comeback to the game.

 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.