Helping you with your own stroke recovery
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Stroke information
Find factsheets, resources and tools to help you understand how stroke affects people, and how to get help or to help yourself
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Latest podcast
Emotional and personality changes
In this episode, we talk about how having a stroke can affect your emotions and personality, and sometimes these changes stick around.
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Latest forum discussions
Wind in our faces!
Tuesday, July 17 2018, 4.04AM 1 comment
pfo closure
Tuesday, July 17 2018, 1.21AM 22 comments
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Latest blogs
The Trivia Night Part 2
Wednesday, July 18 2018, 8.43AM 2 comments
Beauty in Silence
Wednesday, July 18 2018, 6.06AM 3 comments
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Plan your recovery goals
Setting goals helps you achieve what matters to you. Use our free tool to track your recovery, and share and get advice.
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Word of the day
Hemiplegia
Paralysis on one side of the body, affecting the arm, the leg or both.
For similar information see Arm and hand function or Leg functioning
Hemiplegia is when you can’t move one side of your body.
It can affect your arm or your leg, or both.
