Stroke Treatment
Our Rehabilitation helps someone who has had a stroke relearn skills that are suddenly lost when part of the brain is damaged. Each person has a different recovery time and need for long-term care. Problems with moving, thinking, and talking often improve in the first weeks or months
01 Recovering From Stroke
Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States, after heart attack and cancer, and it is a leading cause of adult disability. Stroke patients must receive emergency treatment with Western medicine. It is important to identify a stroke condition as early as possible because patients who are treated earlier are more likely to survive and become less disabled.
02 Rehabilitation Therapies
Disability affects about 75% of stroke survivors, and it can affect patients physically, mentally, emotionally, or a combination of all three elements. The symptoms of stroke depend on the type of stroke and the area of the brain affected. They include paralysis, weakness or abnormal sensations in limbs or face, complex regional pain, aphasia, apraxia, altered vision, problems with hearing, taste, or smell, vertigo, disequilibrium, altered coordination, difficulty swallowing, and mental and emotional changes.
03 Scalp Acupuncture
Scalp acupuncture has been found to have a very good effect on the sequelae of stroke, including hemiplegia, aphasia, complex regional pain, and abnormal sensations in the limbs. Many patients treated with scalp acupuncture at our clinics have shown some immediate improvement from their initial scalp acupuncture treatment. Numerous studies in China over the past three decades have shown that scalp acupuncture is effective in relieving the sequelae of stroke, especially for paralysis.
03 Stroke Treatment
Our Naturopathic Doctor and Masseuse at the clinic also address Stroke victims using natural herbals, supplements, massage, cupping, water therapy, nutritional counselling, lifestyle counselling, traditional Chinese herbals as well as using Clinical Medicine. We pride ourselves in working with your medical doctor to understand all your lab reports, tests, imaging as well as your medications, past medical history and current status to deliver the best care possible.