Have you or a loved one suffered a stroke? Have you been searching for medicine or a treatment that will help aide stroke recovery? Then this article is for you. It will briefly describe what a stroke is, discuss the various types of strokes and finally provide some information about stroke recovery.
A cerebrovascular accident (CVA), commonly referred to as a stroke, is the rapidly developing loss of brain function(s) due to disturbance in the blood supply to a certain area of the brain. When this happens, brains cells die from lack of oxygen and brain damage may occur. As a result of the death of these brain cells, the affected area is not able to function, leading to inability to understand or formulate speech, inability to move limbs on one side of the body or an inability to see one part of the visual field. There are two major categories of strokes: hemorrhagic and ischemic. Hemorrhagic strokes result from a blood vessel rupturing or an abnormal vascular structure, while ischemic strokes are caused by a blood clot blocking an artery. A large majority (87 percent) of strokes are a result of ischemia, while 13 percent are caused by hemorrhage.
