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31. Stroke Rehabilitation - Medicines for Stroke Rehabilitation
    

    After a stroke, you may need medicines to decrease pain, treat depression, or help speed your recovery. These may include: Medicines for pain and depression after a stroke. Examples are: Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) for pain and depression.Tricyclic antidepressants for pain and depression.Anticonvulsant medicines for pain.Medicines for sleeping. After a stroke, you may have ...

32. Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors for Depression and Pain After a Stroke
    

    Drug details for Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors for depression and pain after a stroke.

33. Stroke Recovery: Coping With Eating Problems
    

    It is common to have trouble swallowing after a stroke (dysphagia). You may not be able to feel food on one or both sides of your mouth. You may have problems chewing or producing enough saliva, or you may have other conditions that make eating difficult and increase your risk of choking.Other things that may interfere with normal eating include:Problems seeing or judging where things are, ...

34. Stroke Rehabilitation - Preventing Another Stroke
    

    There are several factors you cannot change that increase your risk of stroke. But there are also several things that you have some control over which can help you avoid another stroke, including:High blood pressure.Heart disease.High cholesterol.Diabetes.Obesity.Excessive use of alcohol.Use of tobacco products.Too much caffeine.Use of certain illegal drugs, such as cocaine.To prevent another ...

35. Stroke Rehabilitation - Overview
    

    Is this topic for you?This topic covers rehabilitation after a stroke. For information on stroke itself, see the topic Stroke.What is stroke rehabilitation?The best way to get better after a stroke is to start stroke rehabilitation (“rehab”). In stroke rehab, a team of health professionals works with you to regain skills you lost as the result of a stroke. Rehab can help you to: Do as well and

36. Stroke Rehabilitation - Health Tools
    

    Health tools help you make wise health decisions or take action to improve your health.Decision Points focus on key medical care decisions that are important to many health problems. Should I put my loved one who has had a stroke in a nursing home?Actionsets are designed to help people take an active role in managing a health condition. Managing eating problems after a stroke ...

37. Interactive Tool: What Is Your Risk for a Stroke if You Have Atrial Fibrillation? - What does this tool measure?
    

    Click here if you have atrial fibrillation, are age 55 or older, and want to find your risk of stroke.This interactive tool measures the chance of having a stroke in the next 5 years for people with atrial fibrillation who are age 55 or older. The tool uses the information you enter to calculate your score. The calculation is based on information from the Framingham Heart Study. During the past ..

38. Interactive Tool: What Is Your Risk for a Stroke if You Have Atrial Fibrillation? - What does your score mean?
    

    Your score will appear in values from 1% to 99%. If your score is 5%, it means that 5 out of 100 people with this level of risk will have a stroke in the next 5 years. If your score is 10%, it means that 10 out of 100 people with this level of risk will have a stroke in the next 5 years. These percentages are important because doctors often use them to determine whether a person should take the ..

39. Interactive Tool: What Is Your Risk for a Stroke if You Have Atrial Fibrillation? - Health Tools
    

    Health tools help you make wise health decisions or take action to improve your health.Interactive tools are designed to help people determine health risks, ideal weight, target heart rate, and more. Stroke risk from atrial fibrillation ...

40. Stroke - Health Tools
    

    Health tools help you make wise health decisions or take action to improve your health. Decision Points focus on key medical care decisions that are important to many health problems.

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