Until recently, significant recovery from the physical and mental losses inflicted by a stroke was thought to be limited to a matter of months following injury to the brain, using conventional ...

HOUSTON – Almost half of stroke survivors can experience spasticity, meaning their muscles get tighter and tighter until they lose the ability to move. RELATED: How one program is helping brain trauma ...

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Everyday movements like pouring a glass of juice and then drinking it, putting the dishes in the washer, and walking down the steps, which most people take for granted, were not possible for Sandy ...

A seismic shift is underway in how experts view functional recovery after a stroke. For years, the prevailing belief was that regaining limb mobility beyond 6 months was nearly impossible, as damaged ...

The wrinkle-removing use of Botox gets all the ink, but its real medical value is to help relieve some major neurological problems, ranging from facial spasms to writer's cramp. Now neurologists are ...

A stroke can come out of nowhere, and it can be permanently life-altering, both for the victim and for their friends and family. However, just as the severity of a stroke can vary depending on the ...

Stroke recovery represents one of the most challenging yet hopeful journeys in medicine. While the brain damage from a stroke cannot be reversed, the remarkable ability of the human brain to rewire ...

A new study has revealed that areas of age-related damage in the brain relate to motor outcomes after a stroke -- a phenomenon that may be under-recognized in stroke research. The new observational ...

The 2026 International Stroke Conference (ISC), held February 4-6 in New Orleans, Louisiana, delivered potentially ...

Nirupama Yechoor, MD, MSC, of the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the senior author of a paper published in JAMA Network Open, "Coherence of Stroke Survivors' Lived ...