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Keeping healthy to STOP STROKES

Keeping healthy to STOP STROKES. Jo Gibson University of Central Lancashire. What is a stroke?. Our brains. Are important for everything we do! Different parts of the brain do different jobs. Our brains…. Our brains…. Our brains…. Our brains…. When a stroke happens….

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Keeping healthy to STOP STROKES

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  1. Keeping healthy to STOP STROKES Jo Gibson University of Central Lancashire

  2. What is a stroke?

  3. Our brains.. • Are important for everything we do! • Different parts of the brain do different jobs

  4. Our brains…

  5. Our brains…

  6. Our brains…

  7. Our brains…

  8. When a stroke happens… • Part of the brain suddenly loses its blood supply • The ‘job’ of that part of the brain is affected

  9. When a stroke happens… • The effects are SUDDEN • Often only one side of the body is affected

  10. Effects of a stroke… FACE

  11. Effects of a stroke… ARM

  12. Effects of a stroke… SPEECH

  13. What to do? • Stroke is an emergency 999 ambulance

  14. Ambulance to hospital

  15. Treatment in hospital Stroke ward

  16. In hospital Tests and treatment

  17. In hospital Help to recover – rehabilitation

  18. The stroke team • Doctor (consultant, specialist) • Nurses • Physiotherapists • Occupational therapists • Speech therapists • Psychologists

  19. Prevention is better than cure! • Some things make a stroke more likely • Some things make a stroke less likely

  20. Check-ups with your doctor • Weight • Smoking • Diet

  21. Check ups with your doctor • Blood tests • cholesterol (fat) • Diabetes (sugar)

  22. Check ups with your doctor Blood pressure

  23. Help to prevent strokes • Advice on diet, exercise and smoking • Medicines (tablets) for some people

  24. We want to find out what help is needed • People with learning difficulties don’t always get the help they need to prevent strokes

  25. What do you think could be improved?

  26. Research on stroke • We plan to… • Find out how many people with learning difficulties get health checks or not

  27. Find out what people think of the help they have received from the health service

  28. Find out what the health service might do to improve the health checks

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