Showing posts with label Driver Safety - Stroke (CVA) Survivors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Driver Safety - Stroke (CVA) Survivors. Show all posts

Friday, April 15, 2011

Internet Stroke Center at UT Southwestern Medical Center

...an independent web resource for information about stroke care and research.

Information for stroke patients and their family members
Information and health care professionals and students
The Stroke Trials Registry and results database
Neurology Image Library


types of stroke
stroke symptoms

professional stroke conferences
guidelines & consensus statements

ongoing clinical trials
scales & assessment tools

clinical stroke services at
washington university medical center

about this site

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Simple tests can tell who can drive after stroke, study finds - USATODAY.com

"A quick and objective screening in the doctor's office can help them to make more accurate decisions," said review author Hannes Devos, a research assistant at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.

However, several U.S. stroke experts said they weren't ready to accept the new study's findings.

The American Heart Association estimates that 6.4 million stroke survivors are alive in the United States today. While some patients are able to recover with few permanent disabilities, strokes can cause some people to permanently lose memory and the ability to properly move their bodies.

In some cases, patients with serious motor-skill problems can still drive a car as long as they're able to get proper equipment, such as an automatic transmission, a left-sided accelerator pedal for patients who have trouble moving their right side, and steering knobs that allow one-handed driving, Devos said

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