Brain Attack: Slow Road to Recovery: Practice, Perseverance at Home
After a month in acute rehab, Jim Krakowsky returns home to continue his recovery efforts. The key to rehabilitation in patients is to practice and practice those things you want to do, even though progress at times seems painfully slow. For the Kra...
Brain Attack: Slow Road to Recovery: Jim and Mary Krakowski's Journey
Five months ago Jim Krakowski experienced a cerebral hemorrhage as he was getting ready for work. No one was home at the time so he lay helpless for hours until his wife, a nurse, returned from work. The hemorrhage was quite large and deep, and the ...
Brain Attack: Slow Road to Recovery: Treadmill Therapy
With virtually no feeling or voluntary movement on his right side, Jim is placed in a climbing harness over a treadmill, the motion of right leg and foot manipulated by the therapist. There is noticeable improvement by the end of just one session. S...
Brain Attack: Plasticity of the Brain, The
Dr. Bruce Dobkin illustrates the adaptability of the brain in a series of fMRI scans done just after the stroke and then at periodic intervals. The brain develops new pathways in supplementary areas if the primary functional area such as the motor c...