Keeping healthy to STOP STROKES

Keeping healthy to STOP STROKES

Jo GibsonUniversity of Central Lancashire

What is a stroke?

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Our brains..

• Are important for everything we do!

• Different parts of the brain do different jobs


Our brains…


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Our brains…

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Our brains…

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Our brains…

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When a stroke happens…

• Part of the brain suddenly loses its blood supply

• The ‘job’ of that part of the brain is affected


When a stroke happens…

• The effects are SUDDEN

• Often only one side of the body is affected


Effects of a stroke…

FACE

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ARM

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SPEECH

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What to do?

• Stroke is an emergency

999 ambulance

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Ambulance to hospital

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Treatment in hospital

Stroke ward

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In hospital

Tests and treatment

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In hospital

Help to recover – rehabilitation

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The stroke team

• Doctor (consultant, specialist)• Nurses• Physiotherapists• Occupational therapists• Speech therapists• Psychologists


Prevention is better than cure!

• Some things make a stroke more likely

• Some things make a stroke less likely


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Check-ups with your doctor

• Weight• Smoking• Diet


Check ups with your doctor

• Blood tests

• cholesterol (fat)

• Diabetes (sugar)


Check ups with your doctor

Blood pressure


Help to prevent strokes

• Advice on diet, exercise and smoking

• Medicines (tablets) for some people


We want to find out what help is needed

• People with learning difficulties don’t always get the help they need to prevent strokes


What do you think could be improved?


Research on stroke

• We plan to…

• Find out how many people with learning difficulties get health checks or not


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


• Find out what the health service might do to improve the health checks



Keeping healthy to STOP STROKES

Documents

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