1. National Stroke Association: Stroke Recovery - Movement
The word “hemi” means “one side” and “paresis” means “weakness.” About 80% of people who have had a stroke have some degree of trouble moving one side, or suffer from weakness on one side of their bodies. This condition, called hemiparesis, is mo...
www.stroke.org
2. Anterior-Posterior Ground Reaction Forces as a Measure of Paretic Leg Contribution in Hemiparetic Walking -- Bowden et al. 37 (3): 872 -- Stroke
From the Brain Rehabilitation Research Center (M.G.B., S.A.K.), Malcom Randall VA Medical Center, Gainesville Fla; Rehabilitation Science Doctoral Program (C.K.B.) and Department of Physical Therapy (S.A.K.) and Brooks Center for Rehabilitation St...
stroke.ahajournals.org
3. Stroke - CVA
hypertensive hemorrhage; subarachnoid hemorrhage - berry aneurysm rupture; other hemorrhage - vascular malformations, atherosclerotic aneurysms, mycotic aneurysms;
enotes.tripod.com
4. hildren's Hemiplegia and Stroke Association - Support for children with hemiplegia, hemiparesis, childhood stroke, infant stroke, hemiplegia, hem...
Hemiplegia in children is due to a number of different causes and includes stroke, blood vessel disorders, infection, trauma, tumors, and other rare causes. The most common cause of hemiplegia in children is infant stroke or childhood stroke. 95%...
www.chasa.org
5. Stroke Motor Impairment: eMedicine Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Cerebrovascular disease is the third leading cause of death and the leading cause of disability in the United States. The incidence in the United States is approximately 700,000 cases per year, resulting in an estimated 170,000 fatalities annually...
emedicine.medscape.com
6. Effects of Stroke: UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
The effects of stroke vary from person to person based on the type, severity, and location of the stroke. The brain is extremely complex and each area of the brain is responsible for a special function or ability. When an area of the brain is dama...
www.utsouthwestern.edu.
7. Management of Meningiomas (File 15): CLIVUS AND PETROCLIVAL MENIGIOMAS
A joint program of the Departments of Otolaryngology, Neurosurgery, and Radiation Oncology dedicated to the evaluation and treatment of patients with cranial base lesions. Including the Cranial Base Center News - A newsletter with information rega...
neurosurgery.mgh.harvard.edu
8. baillement-opercule-rolandique
Dissociated preservation of automatic-voluntary jaw movements in a patient with biopercular and unilateral pontine infarcts
www.baillement.com
9. Arch Neurol -- Improving Hand Function in Chronic Stroke, August 2002, Muellbacher et al. 59 (8): 1278
Figure 2. Effects of motor practice (A) and motor practice and anesthesia (B) on motor behavior and motor excitability in patients with long-term stroke. Data were normalized to the initial (prepractice 1) measure and given a value of 1.0. The num...
archneur.ama-assn.org
10. BASIC MOTOR PATHWAY
The motor pathways are pathways which originate in the brain or brainstem and descend down the spinal cord to control the a -motor neurons. These large neurons in the ventral horns of the spinal cord send their axons out via the spinal roots and d...
thalamus.wustl.edu