Statistics relating to strokes and falls are bleak, with research revealing that strokes can increase the risk of falling by 4 times and drastically increase the risk of breaking a hip following a fall. Approximately 80% of individuals who have strokes will also have impaired balance to some degree. A study which presented a yoga… Read More: Can Yoga Help Improve Balance for Stroke Victims? »
1 Which of the following amino acids are considered “essential,” as your body cannot produce them and must obtain them from your diet? Alanine, cysteine, glycine Arginine, glutamine, proline Asparagine, serine, tyrosine Leucine, methionine, tryptophan There are 20 basic amino acids that make up the proteins in your body. Nine of them — histidine, isoleucine,… Read More: Weekly Health Quiz: Sugar, Stroke and Herbicides »
Stroke can result in a variety of debilitating conditions caused by damaged neural connections within the brain. Researchers at the Eddy Scurlock Stroke Center at Houston Methodist Hospital in Texas have now successfully tested a wearable, multifocal, transcranial, rotating, permanent magnet stimulator (TRPMS) to boost neural activity near injured brain areas in patients recovering from… Read More: Wearable Magnetic Stimulator for Stroke Recovery »
Pinpointing your future risk of heart attack or stroke with a simple bone scan may soon be a reality, as researchers broach a new frontier for medical research. The National Health and Medical Research Council will provide $ 467,980 to fund a three-year collaborative project led by a team of Edith Cowan University (ECU) researchers. The team… Read More: Future heart and stroke risk predicted by the touch of… »