YOU are going to have to DEMAND that goals and objectives are set for stroke. 100% recovery.
'Best care' is not the answer. Best care allows the doctors and hospital to not even attempt to solve any of the problems in stroke.
http://www.gulf-times.com/story/522554/HMC-to-open-rehabilitation-facility-for-stroke-pat
Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) will open the Qatar Rehabilitation
Institute (QRI) in Hamad Bin Khalifa Medical City soon, offering best
care in rehabilitation services for stroke patients and others.
The groundbreaking new facility will provide patients with world-class
integrated rehabilitation services, including specialist stroke
recovery. Multi-disciplinary teams of physicians and occupational,
physical, paediatric and speech therapists will work together to offer
advanced stroke and traumatic brain injury treatments and services.
These cutting-edge services and treatments will be tailored to each
patient’s individual needs. For stroke patients, one of the services
that will be offered is intensive gait training to help patients walk
again. Additionally, QRI’s strength and endurance services will focus on
helping patients’ neurologic, muscular, bone and joint recovery to help
them regain their independence.
The QRI’s co-ordinated and collaborative interdisciplinary approach to
treatment and therapy will be based on the most up-to-date research and
practice and its foremost goal will be to help patients reach their
maximum recovery potential so that they can return to living as normal a
life as possible.
One crucial aspect of stroke care is rehabilitation, said Dr Wafaa
al-Yazeedi, acting chairperson of the Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation Department at Rumailah Hospital. “Due to the prevalence
of risk factors such as diabetes, smoking, high blood pressure and high
cholesterol, the incidence of stroke in Qatar is rising. Each year, more
than 1,000 acute stroke patients are admitted to HMC and many of these
patients require long-term rehabilitative care to help them recover,”
she said.
“The primary aim of stroke rehabilitation is to enable the patient to
relearn the motor skills they have lost due to the stroke. HMC’s expert
rehabilitation teams work together by setting individual patient goals
to overcome challenges and find innovative solutions that noticeably
improve patient recovery,” said Dr al-Yazeedi.
“The rehabilitation process for patients at HMC begins as early as
possible, often 24 to 48 hours after the stroke has occurred. It is
important to start the patient’s recovery process as soon as possible to
give them the best chance of recovery,” she noted.
Acute strokes often damage critical parts of the brain that control
muscle strength, movement and co-ordination. When the blood supply to
the brain is suddenly cut off due to an acute stroke, damage to these
areas of the brain can lead to a loss of function and coordination in
various parts of the body.
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