- Title
- Physical activity after stroke
- Creator
- Balchin, Tom; Valkenborghs, Sarah
- Relation
- Clinical Exercise Science p. 123-155
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Stroke is defined by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a clinical syndrome consisting of 'rapidly developing clinical signs of focal (at times global) disturbance of cerebral function, lasting more than 24 hours or leading to death with no apparent cause other than that of vascular origin' (WHO 2001). There are two main types of stroke: 1) Ischaemic stroke, which accounts for 85 per cent of strokes, result from a thrombosis or embolism which blocks or narrows a blood vessel that carries oxygenated blood to the brain; 2) Haemorrhagic stroke, which accounts for 15 per cent of strokes, carries a higher risk of fatality. This is when a blood vessel bursts, causing haemorrhaging into the brain tissue.
- Subject
- ischaemic stroke; haemorrhagic stroke; physical activity
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1348970
- Identifier
- uon:30297
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780415708418
- Language
- eng
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