STROKESURVIVORS INTERNATIONAL

WELCOME! We hope you will find our site interesting and useful as a reference point for links to other websites containing help and information about strokes.



ONLINE STROKE SUPPORT GROUP
Our group of Strokesurvivors International communicates with each other through an e-mail list group. If you have had a stroke, or are a caregiver, family member, friend or just an interested health care professional, you are welcome to join.
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We offer mutual support and encouragement in a friendly manner. We talk about our experiences, ask questions, try to provide answers, provide information, tell stories and sometimes just "listen." Our Moderators are "stroke survivors". We are not medical advisors, just people who have had strokes. 

See our Special Information for New Strokers and Caregivers

Stroke Survivors International our MISSION STATEMENT and DISCLAIMER

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STROKESURVIVORS BOOKSTORE   Contains specially selected books of interest to strokesurvivors, caregivers, and the disabled. In affiliation with Amazon.com U.S. website.

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STROKE WARNING SIGNS  - A MEDICAL EMERGENCY
* Sudden numbness or weakness of the face, arm or leg, especially on one    side of the body.
* Sudden confusion, trouble speaking or understanding.
* Sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes.
* Sudden trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination.
* Sudden severe headache with no known cause.

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Consumer Health Library 
by - Healthology. HealthCenterOnline

International Stroke Associations and Foundations
USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK.  

Personal Stroke Stories 
1.  Reinhard, Germany.

Health Page 1
Medicine Bridge Help Program.
The Medicine Program.
Needy Meds.
Searchable Rx drug database.
Stroke Magazines (USA & Canada)
About One-Hand Typing.
One-Touch/One-Hand Can Opener
Speech Webring

Health Page 2
Therapies/Aids for the Stroke Disabled:
Hammesfahr Therapy
Automove
Bungalow Software for Aphasia
Language Care Center Programs
Univ. of Michigan Aphasia Program (UMAP)
The Fun way to Build Vocabularly Skills (of interest
to Aphasiac strokesurvivors.)
Aphasia Toolbox
InteRACT Residential Adult Aphasia Treatment Program

Health Page 3
More Therapies/Aids for the Stroke Disabled:
Advanced Recovery Rehabilitation Centre
Saebo Inc. Specializing in Neurological Rehabilitation Products
Wisent Healthcare Products
Dynamic Living

Watchminder;  Also Medic-Alert Items

Other Great Websites:
Books written by and for Stroke Survivors - Offered for Sale

Page 1 - Support/Informational Links

Page 2 - More Support/Informational/For Sale Websites
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Watch a stroke in progress:A stroke can occur anywhere in the brain. The following is just an example.

Image shows front of brain at left, and back of brain at right , with cerebellum, the large lump area  located behind the brain/stem 

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