Life After Stroke: The Guide to Recovering Your Health and Preventing Another Stroke (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)

Clear, concise and a joy to read because it's easy to understand. More importantly, it could save your life.
―Mary Beth Regan, Baltimore Sun

The book explains the importance of understanding the differences among strokes, and offers advice on treatment, rehabilitation, and lifestyle changes that will help prevent a reoccurrence.
―Susan Chaityn Lebovits, Boston Globe

Designed to help readers understand what causes stroke and how it impacts survivors and their families.
―M.D. News

Case history experiences blend with tips and discussions and of the latest and possibly forthcoming new treatments, offering families and survivors a positive survey.
―Midwest Book Review

Compassionate guide.
―Stroke Connection Magazine

An excellent resource for people with stroke, their loved ones, and any one interested in stroke recovery and prevention.
―Forence A. Denby, MS, Doody's Review Service (3 stars)

A book about strokes might seem tiresome, but Life After Stroke has a heart and soul of its own . . . an excellent tool for nurses who work with stroke patients.
―Terry Ratner, RN, MFA, Nursing Spectrum

Very readable and engaging . . . a good reference source for nonprofessionals
―Victor A. Colotla, PsycCRITIQUES

Unique in its focus.
―The Sharon Advocate

Clear, concise, and a joy to read because it's easy to understand. More importantly, it could save your life.
―Mary Beth Regan, The Sun Archive

An invaluable resource for survivors and their families.
―AAP Newsletter

This book may help you navigate the sometimes confusing corridors of medicine to empower you to take control of your health or that of your loved one. Read it and learn, and then discuss it with your physician. Between your involved interest, what you discover here, and your doctor's expertise, your or your loved one's recovery lies in very good hands indeed.
―Robert J. Wityk, M.D., from the foreword

In this compassionate guide, three expert physicians who treat people with stroke describe how to navigate the path to recovery. Their practical advice on treatment, rehabilitation, and lifestyle changes is also designed to help prevent another stroke.

Drs. Stein, Silver, and Frates begin by explaining how stroke occurs and what happens when different parts of the brain are injured. They describe diagnostic tools such as CT scans and MRIs as well as medications used to prevent and treat stroke, and they explain in detail how stroke survivors can heal optimally. They also set out plans to help survivors reduce the risk of another stroke, including the Stroke Savvy Exercise Plan and Stroke Savvy Diet Plan.

Relating patients' experiences and bringing readers up to date on promising new treatments, Life After Stroke offers hope to stroke survivors and their families.

This book may help you navigate the sometimes confusing corridors of medicine to empower you to take control of your health or that of your loved one. Read it and learn, and then discuss it with your physician. Between your involved interest, what you discover here, and your doctor's expertise, your or your loved one's recovery lies in very good hands indeed.

Joel Stein, M.D., is the chief medical officer at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and associate professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School.

Julie K. Silver, M.D., is the medical director of one of Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital's outpatient centers, located in Framingham, Massachusetts. This center is the home of an oncology rehabilitation program that Dr. Silver directs called RESTORE (www.cancer-rehab.org), which focuses on helping cancer survivors to physically heal. Dr. Silver is also an assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School and on the medical staff of Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's Hospitals in Boston, Massachusetts. She has edited and written more than a dozen books and is a co-author of Life After Stroke: The Guide to Recovering Your Health and Preventing Another Stroke, also published by Johns Hopkins. She is the recipient of the 2006 Lane Adams Quality of Life Award, the American Cancer Society's most prestigious award.