Stroke is one of the most common diseases in the field of internal medicine and neurology and is increasingly found in older patients. However, younger people such as children or adolescents can also suffer a stroke due to accidents or congenital blood disorders. Physiotherapy is used in the rehabilitation of stroke patients and rebuilds the … Stroke exercises
Exercises for the arms To train the arms, the shoulders should also be strengthened. 1) Grab a towel and hold both ends in your right and left hand. In this exercise you can sit or stand. Pay attention to the following points: Then pull the towel apart and go until the towel is at its … Exercises for the arms | Stroke exercises
Exercise language In addition to the skeletal muscles, speech can also be affected by a stroke. This is important in the communication between the patient and the therapist, as well as between the patient and his relatives. Here, too, speech therapy exercises can be performed to improve speech ability. Here too, it is important to … Exercise language | Stroke exercises
A stroke is a circulatory disorder in parts of the brain. As a result, different regions of the brain are no longer sufficiently supplied with oxygen and nutrients. The consequences manifest themselves in severe impairments, which depend on the extent and location of the brain damage. After heart disease and cancer, stroke is the third … Stroke: Can Physiotherapy Help?
Pareses By paresis, doctors understand an incomplete paralysis of a muscle, a muscle group or a whole extremity. The difference to plegia is that although the muscle strength in this area is significantly reduced, residual functions still exist. Pareses are caused by a neurological disorder. The stroke disrupts the so-called 2nd motoneuron (motor nerve cells … Pareses | Stroke: Can Physiotherapy Help?
Multiple Sclerosis It is, just like a stroke, a neurological disease. Unlike a stroke, the exact causes of the disease are not yet known – researchers assume that it is a multifactorial event. However, a commonality between stroke and MS in the causes is now known. This is that coagulation factor XII is responsible for … Multiple Sclerosis | Stroke: Can Physiotherapy Help?
Exercises after a stroke It is important that the remaining residual functions are stimulated and trained as early as possible in order to maintain and promote them. In addition, other intact brain structures should be trained so that they can take over the tasks of any brain areas that have been disturbed. The choice of … Exercises after a stroke | Stroke: Can Physiotherapy Help?
Alternative treatment measures A stroke means serious changes for the affected person and his social environment. A multidisciplinary treatment is necessary. Therefore, most patients receive occupational therapy in parallel to physiotherapy. In this therapy, ADL (activities of daily life, such as washing, dressing) are trained, among other things, in order to enable the affected person … Alternative treatment measures | Stroke: Can Physiotherapy Help?
Physiotherapy in multiple sclerosis plays an important role, especially in the field of conservative therapy, which is of great importance in addition to drug therapy. Physiotherapy in MS always depends on the individual patient and the course of MS. The physiotherapist will develop a therapy concept that is tailored to the patient, which also includes … Physiotherapy for Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Goals of physiotherapy Symptoms Multiple sclerosis is a disease with many faces. Due to the different forms of progression and the complex functions that the brain and spinal cord take on, the symptoms can be present in different ways. However, there are many characteristics that are typical and common for the disease. These include visual … Goals of physiotherapy | Physiotherapy for Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
History Although multiple sclerosis has a common cause (inflammation in the brain and spinal cord, which mainly affects the nerve tracts and the transmission of stimuli), there are different forms of progression: relapsing-remitting: this describes the most common form of multiple sclerosis. Here, the symptoms are relapsing and are not permanent, so that the symptoms … History | Physiotherapy for Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
