{"id":4389,"date":"2013-05-13T15:07:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T21:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/summit-education.com\/?p=4389"},"modified":"2013-05-22T08:55:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T14:55:59","slug":"therapy-essential-in-stroke-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/general\/therapy-essential-in-stroke-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Therapy Essential in Stroke Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"stroke<\/a>Stroke can strike suddenly and most people don’t know what is happening.\u00a0 For JoAnn Berkley of Cookeville, TN, she was lucky to have a friend that was a former nurse recognize the symptoms which allowed her to get to a hospital immediately.<\/p>\n

As soon as she arrived at the hospital, the medical team started exams and found that a stroke was occurring in the brain stem, a pontine stroke.\u00a0 JoAnn was put on bedrest and a medication regime before starting therapy.\u00a0 Initially, she did not want to participate in a therapy program, but is glad that she did.\u00a0 \u201cI wanted to go home, but my doctor insisted I go through therapy,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m glad he did. I would not have done as well as I am doing now if I didn\u2019t go through this.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Tresia Boykin, program director of Cookeville Regional Medical Center’s inpatient rehab program, “JoAnn had all the symptoms and a lot was affected, she needed all three areas of therapy \u2014 occupational, physical and speech.\u00a0 She has come a long way.\u201d\u00a0 Strokes can happen to anyone at any age.\u00a0 It is important that stroke patients receive specific therapy for a better outcome. You can read the full article on JoAnn’s story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thank you to all therapists who work with stroke patients! Let us know here or on Facebook<\/a> if you would like thank a therapist for their work with stroke patients.<\/p>\n

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Stroke can strike suddenly and most people don’t know what is happening.\u00a0 For JoAnn Berkley of Cookeville, TN, she was lucky to have a friend that was a former nurse recognize the symptoms which allowed her to get to a hospital immediately. As soon as she arrived at the hospital, the medical team started exams […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t