How to recover from a stroke

  Cerebral infarction and cerebral hemorrhage is one of the most common diseases with high morbidity, mortality, and disability.  At present, the mortality rate of stroke is the highest among all kinds of diseases. In terms of disability, about 70% of stroke patients have different degrees of functional impairment, including: limb paralysis, speech and communication difficulties, limb numbness, cognitive impairment, swallowing difficulties, among which hemiplegia is the most common, causing great pain to the patient and a heavy burden to the family and society.  WHO’s definition of disability: 1.Disability (impairment), 2.Disability (difficulty with tasks), 3.Disability (handicap), 4.Disability (handicap), 5.Disability (handicap), 6.Disability (handicap), 7.Disability (handicap). handicap) social disadvantage.  Rehabilitation is a recovery and learning process that helps patients to regain motor ability and independence and return to social life to the greatest extent possible through training in three areas: post-stroke disability, illness and handicap.  The definition of rehabilitation given by WHO in 1981 is: 1. Rehabilitation refers to the application of various useful measures to alleviate the effects of disability and reintegrate the disabled into society.  Rehabilitation is not only about training people with disabilities to adapt to their surroundings, but also about adjusting the conditions of their surroundings and society to facilitate their reintegration into society.  Rehabilitation services should be designed with the participation of the person with a disability, his or her family and the community in which he or she lives.  In 1989, WHO proposed the following objectives for stroke rehabilitation: 1. to improve motor, language, cognitive and other impaired functions; 2. to enable the patient to re-adapt mentally, psychologically and socially; 3. to enable the patient to resume autonomous activities, social activities and interpersonal communication, and to restore the patient’s ability to perform daily life as far as possible.  Early rehabilitation, step by step rehabilitation should be started in parallel with emergency rescue, and preventive rehabilitation should be done. Through preventive measures, it can not only promote the recovery of damaged functions as soon as possible, but also prevent the occurrence of various complications. The advantages of early rehabilitation also include shortening the course of treatment, reducing hospitalization days, and alleviating the economic burden and psychological pressure of patients. According to the data published by the World Health Organization in 1989, 60% of stroke patients can achieve self-care in daily life after early rehabilitation, which shows that the earlier the rehabilitation treatment starts, the better the rehabilitation effect.