keeping healthy to stop strokes
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Keeping healthy to STOP STROKES. Jo Gibson University of Central Lancashire. What is a stroke?. Our brains. Are important for everything we do! Different parts of the brain do different jobs. Our brains…. Our brains…. Our brains…. Our brains…. When a stroke happens…. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Keeping healthy to STOP STROKES
Jo GibsonUniversity of Central Lancashire
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Our brains..
• Are important for everything we do!
• Different parts of the brain do different jobs
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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
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When a stroke happens…
• The effects are SUDDEN
• Often only one side of the body is affected
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What to do?
• Stroke is an emergency
999 ambulance
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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
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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
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Check ups with your doctor
• Blood tests
• cholesterol (fat)
• Diabetes (sugar)
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Check ups with your doctor
Blood pressure
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Help to prevent strokes
• Advice on diet, exercise and smoking
• Medicines (tablets) for some people
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We want to find out what help is needed
• People with learning difficulties don’t always get the help they need to prevent strokes
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Research on stroke
• We plan to…
• Find out how many people with learning difficulties get health checks or not
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• Find out what people think of the help they have received from the health service
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• Find out what the health service might do to improve the health checks