How far can you recover from a cerebral infarction? It's really a matter that varies from person to person. Stroke has always been a disease with the highest rate of death and disability in China, and it is estimated that more than 70% of patients are unable to live independently because of disability. It can be seen that the number of patients who can completely regain the ability to take care of themselves after cerebral infarction does not account for the majority of patients.

Recovery after cerebral infarction is related to the severity of the disease on the one hand, and whether or not the patient starts receiving rehabilitation therapy as early as possible on the other. It has been found that the earlier the rehabilitation treatment is started, the better the recovery of the patient's ability to live. According to the Chinese Expert Consensus on Acute Phase Rehabilitation of Cerebral Infarction, it is recommended that patients with cerebral infarction should start rehabilitation interventions right after the onset of the disease. These interventions include rehabilitation care, rehabilitation of level of consciousness and swallowing function, placement of good limbs in the hospital bed, position change, mobilization of various joints, and trunk movement. Once the condition is stabilized, patients should be encouraged to participate in appropriate off-bed rehabilitation activities.

When patients go home for convalescence, they should be provided with a good rehabilitation environment for cerebral infarction patients. The diet should also provide low-fat, high-protein and high-vitamin foods according to the patient's characteristics, and the patient should be encouraged to eat more fiber-rich foods, such as all kinds of fresh vegetables and fruits, brown rice and other coarse grain staples, as well as soybean products, etc. It is strictly forbidden to give the patient high-fat foods, such as fatty meats, animal offal, fish eggs, and so on.

In daily rehabilitation activities, patients should be encouraged to be able to do what they can and strengthen their self-care ability. However, it is also necessary to pay attention to the combination of work and rest, to avoid overwork, and to improve the quality of sleep. Psychological comfort is also vital to the patient's recovery, try to make the patient keep a calm mind and avoid emotional excitement. Patients should be encouraged to communicate with the outside world more often to reduce mental stress and improve their ability to adapt to the environment and social activities.

Preventing recurrence of cerebral infarction is also a very important thing. The patient's blood pressure, blood lipids and blood sugar levels should be managed, and medications should be taken to control them if necessary. For ischemic stroke patients, small doses of antiplatelet agents should also be taken under doctor's supervision to prevent the re-formation of blood clots.

Cerebral infarction is the softening and necrosis of local brain tissues due to blood circulation disorders, ischemia and oxygenation. Cerebral infarction is mainly due to the occurrence of atherosclerosis and thrombosis in the arteries supplying blood to the brain, resulting in narrowing or occlusion of the lumen, resulting in focal acute lack of cerebral blood supply and the onset of the disease; there are also cases in which an abnormal object enters into the cerebral arteries or the carotid arteries along with the circulation, resulting in the blockage of the blood flow or a sudden decrease in the flow of blood resulting in the softening and necrosis of the corresponding cerebral tissues. The former is called atherosclerotic thrombotic cerebral infarction and the latter is called cerebral embolism.

Cerebral infarction is a common disease nowadays, with a certain recurrence rate, and the incidence rate is increasing every year. For patients with cerebral infarction recovery period of several years, is not generalized, which is related to a variety of factors, let's look at the following.

Cerebral infarction recovery period is determined by a combination of factors

It is not possible to give an exact timetable, as the location and size of the infarction, its severity, the treatment, the individual's physical condition, the rehabilitation training, etc., depend on the patient's specific situation. Cerebral infarction can take days or even years to recover from the onset of infarction.

Recovery from a brain attack is usually within two years

In most cases, the recovery period is within two years, after two years is the period of sequelae. Recovery period by effective drug treatment, coupled with rehabilitation exercises, the improvement of symptoms will be more ideal, the patient in addition to adhere to the rehabilitation of drugs to take also need to adhere to, such as Tianxintai and other such drugs need to be used for a long period of time, to prevent relapse, the disease has a high rate of recurrence, the average annual recurrence rate of about 30%.

Life should pay attention to a light diet, not overwork, avoid emotional excitement, maintain a good state of mind, more moderate exercise.

Cerebral infarction can recover to what extent? I'll answer your question, because I happened to be hemiplegic cerebral infarction on New Year's Day in 2017, after treatment left the sequelae of cerebral infarction, after more than four years of a variety of treatments "acupuncture massage massage, exercise, traditional Chinese medicine, Western medicine, electrotherapy, pulse therapy and so on".

First of all, when I was hospitalized, because I was paralyzed, I started to think that I would get well soon, but after I realized that I would probably be paralyzed in bed, I started to break down and despair inside. After the encouragement of my family and the doctor, I started to exercise and massage my affected limbs from the third day onwards, both actively and passively. To the seventh day can sit on the edge of the bed, the ninth day can be assisted to go down to the ground, dragging the affected leg a little walk, the sixteenth day to go home from the hospital, a door because the home is in a mess, they do not like the home is chaotic, they began to little by little dragging half a day does not listen to the command of the affected limb to clean up. About a month later, because everyone is busy, limping to go shopping for groceries, from the hospital discharge into the door to now, more than four years, the housework has always been done by me.

During this time, massage massage acupuncture, I personally feel that it does little or nothing.

It's still about having faith, managing your diet, keeping warm, and in layman's terms, loving yourself well, eating well and sleeping well, and doing what you can do on your own while keeping yourself safe. This is also an exercise.

And so it goes, year after year, and I'm now recovering quite well, except for still walking with a slight limp.

So, my friends, a brain attack is scary and not scary, depending on how you treat it. We look it in the eye, we face it, and we overcome it.

Cheer up!

I am a cerebral infarction patients, has been impossible to fully recover, eleven years, the age of the people are more than 60 years old. What medicine have eaten, Chinese medicine, western medicine eat a lot, are only able to stabilize the condition, it is impossible to cure this cerebral infarction. I got this disease, experienced stand up, to walk slowly walk up, my partner said I have no perseverance, not be able to overcome this condition, do not develop, aggravate the condition is good, but this disease is not according to their own will to shift, good time to stand up and feel very relaxed, but, in his lack of spirit, we have to work against people, either feel bad legs and feet, or more and more powerless, walking column crutches are felt, and the brain will not be able to stop. Walking column with crutches are felt, pulling the breath not on the neck, panting, from 53 years old at the time of the disease to 64 years old this year, I am considered to have eleven years of experience. Eleven years, in addition to rain, snow, hail, almost every day in the walk, but, are not better, the old partner is still every day in the massage, but, these are auxiliary measures, can not find a complete cure, I have to be bad, eleven years, will have to go through a dozen years again?

Thank you! The degree of recovery from cerebral infarction should be judged according to the actual situation, and one very important point in the actual clinical work is perseverance, really, there are patients with massive cerebral infarction because of long-term perseverance, so as to achieve a degree of at least self-care. So there are a lot of determinants here.

The first very important factor is the specifics of the infarction, some infarcts are not particularly important, such as lacunar infarcts or non-functional areas of the infarcts, such as this case, basically, the later recovery is not a problem, the vast majority of cases of self-care or normal work and study this is not a problem.

But some brain infarction is really very annoying, such as large brain infarction or thalamic infarction, basal ganglia infarction, brain stem infarction, etc., this kind of often he will cause the patient's adverse reaction, and this kind of brain infarction has a lot of time, and even need to pass the way of surgical operation, only to be able to save the patient's most basic life safety, and later on need to be through the large number of rehabilitation function exercise, only to be able to have a Better results.

Therefore, the exact location of the infarction, and the extent of the infarction, this is a very important evaluation factor, which must be clearly defined, and the evaluation by a medical professional is very accurate.

The second is whether the formal treatment, in reality, some people can go through a very clear treatment, such as this also does not have some special problems, but there are people, the results of the treatment is not particularly perfect compared to the subsequent further progression of the disease, or even the formation of a very serious consequences, this kind of is not particularly return to normal.

And we must know, now for cerebral infarction he is not just purely playing bottle, infusion so simple, many times are able to improve the relevant examination to clarify the specific situation, relevant surgical treatment, such as the most common is to place a stent or carotid artery endothelial debridement surgery, or superficial temporal artery middle cerebral artery anastomosis, etc., there are a lot of patients in the clinic after surgery, recovery is very good. Many patients recover very well after the surgery and have a good trend in the follow-up.

The third is the rehabilitation function exercise, this is now a very respected treatment means and methods, if can get the formal rehabilitation function exercise, there are many times at least can achieve a life of self-care state. There are even some long-term coma patients, after a certain amount of formal rehabilitation function exercise, can even achieve a conscious state, or even wake up state and normal communication. But now in China, the formal rehabilitation function exercise institutions are very few, and the personnel is also very small, this is also in need of vigorously popularize and develop.

Moreover, the rehabilitation time is relatively long in general, and there are many people who have lost their confidence and can't stick to it, except for those who have relatively good family conditions, who actively carry out functional rehabilitation exercises, and their overall condition will be much better than those who haven't gone through functional rehabilitation exercises.

In fact, there are many other determinants, such as whether it is possible, on time, to review and clarify the specific changes in the situation? Is it possible to change the previous bad habits? Is it possible to control blood pressure, stabilize blood sugar and reduce blood fat? Is it possible to keep the bowels stable and unobstructed and other factors? Is it possible to achieve a relatively stable state of the whole body?

So the cure really isn't that simple, the more professional you are the more you can tell you a whole lot of a lot of truth. Just like making steamed buns, for example, there is always someone who does it very professionally, very well, and he also formalities will also be very complicated and also very tasty. So it is very important to leave it to a professional physician to make the judgment, and the follow-up treatment very often depends on these doctors to make the judgment.

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Cerebral infarction mostly occurs in middle-aged and old people between 40 and 70 years old. It is caused by the lack of blood and oxygen in the brain cells due to the obstacle of blood supply to the brain, which affects the brain to control a certain part of the body and then the corresponding symptoms will appear. Cerebral infarction not only threatens the health and life of the patient, but also brings great inconvenience and burden to the family. So, once you have suffered a cerebral infarction, to what extent can you actually recover? Why is it that some people can return to normal, business as usual, a year after the onset of the disease, while others do not fully recover?

The degree of recovery from a brain attack depends on the severity of the patient's illness and the treatment measures taken after the illness. If the cerebral infarction occurs in a non-vital blood vessel of the brain, then the symptoms will not be too serious and the recovery will be slightly easier. However, if the disease is more serious and has a wide range of effects, with loss of consciousness or limb dysfunction, swallowing and speech disorders, then there may be after-effects, and recovery will be more difficult.

Cerebral infarction must be treated actively. If it is a large cerebral infarction, within 3-6 hours after the onset of the disease, timely thrombolytic therapy, the prognosis will be better, if it is more than this time, can not be thrombolytic, the effect will be poorer, and the possibility of leaving sequelae is greater. If there are sequelae after the onset of the disease, it is necessary to actively cooperate with the doctor to carry out rehabilitation and functional exercise as soon as possible, which will also speed up the recovery of the disease. At the same time, the secondary prevention of cerebral infarction should be paid attention to in the treatment, controlling the risk factors and increasing the antiplatelet therapy. The incidence rate of recurrent cerebral infarction is very high, and the severity of recurrent infarction will be aggravated, and it is more difficult to recover.

Therefore, patients with cerebral infarction must actively undergo treatment and take secondary preventive measures.

Answer: Xue Liyuan, M.S., M.S.

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A few years ago, my husband's high blood pressure, high pressure 140, low pressure 110, every day to let him take medication, that stubborn ah, just do not eat, sometimes, the medicine to his mouth to eat, do not send it does not eat, but I am also busy every day, so I can take care of him every day.

Finally, one day, because of overwork, he was on the way to Qingdao airport to pick up people, feel half body numbness, left hand and left foot does not work, out of the cell phone to call me, the mouth is hair scooped.

Luckily, he hadn't gotten out far enough to drive the automatic, driving slowly home on his right foot, I was running down the stairs in my pajamas at this point, I opened the driver's door to switch places with him, and as soon as the door was open, my husband rolled off, already half out of control, and my neighbor helped me lift him into the car, and I winded my way to the hospital.

Luckily it was close to the hospital and within half an hour of golden hour, hubby was lying in the emergency room and getting treatment.

Now recovered and normal people, just because of timely treatment ah, what sequelae are not, so I heard that the golden time for cerebral infarction treatment is four hours, if the time is too long, it will leave sequelae.

My current husband takes his meds every day and no longer needs to be prodded, he said himself that I almost walked in circles and had the nerve to not take it seriously.

I said that drawing circles is light, but heavy will kill you, so friends with high blood pressure, must pay attention, do not take it seriously.

I am a patient with severe cerebral infarction, and the director said I was crippled when I was treated in a tertiary hospital in Shanghai! I also thought of dying! Then I met a patient who told me about his experience, and I saw that he could walk at that time. So I decided to try to live! I started training from the time I was discharged from the hospital. After six years, I am now just like a normal person. I've also seen many patients give up. Until now they are still lying in bed or sitting in wheelchairs. So it's up to you to persevere. Persistence is victory!

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The question of whether or not the prognosis is for recovery from a brain attack cannot be generalized.

Because cerebral infarction refers to the infarction of the blood vessels in the functional brain, brain function is damaged. Depending on the supplying blood vessel, and the size of the blood vessel, different symptoms appear.

General microvascular infarction, clinically called cavernous cerebral infarction, usually do not have any symptoms, such patients infarction of brain tissue of the blood vessels may be other blood vessels compensation, generally functionally there is no change. Then we can't talk about the problem of recovery or not.

There are also cerebral infarcts within 5cm, which do not occur in the brainstem but in the cerebral or cerebellar hemispheres. Generally, the patient's symptoms will not be too severe, and if hospitalized and treated in time, he or she can recover completely if the blood vessels are recanalized. If the blood vessels can not be recanalized, the function can be basically restored through the later rehabilitation treatment.

But when there is a large cerebral infarction, or a brain stem infarction, the patient will be very symptomatic from the beginning of the symptoms, or even coma, and if admitted to the hospital within 6 hours, through interventional thrombolysis, or intravenous thrombolysis, most of them can also return to normal if they pass. However, there may be sequelae after a long period of time. But those who do not recanalize the brain infarction, the sequelae of the patient must be there, and will not return to normal. But through the later exercise and functional recovery, more or less can recover some functions, even some even can't recover at all.

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I am a mild cerebral infarction patient, over 40 years old, in May this year, due to high blood pressure caused by cerebral infarction and cerebral hemorrhage, at that time the measurement of the blood pressure is high pressure 200, low pressure 140. the symptom is that the right side of the limbs have difficulty in movement, especially the right hand, grip weakness, some fine movements can not be completed, such as chopsticks to pick up the food, holding a pen to write and so on.

After half a month of hospitalization, things got much better and then I went home to recover, the doctor said that brain infarcts take about 6 months to recover, occasionally up to a year. The doctor said that it takes about 6 months to recover from a cerebral infarction and occasionally a year. I just heard the doctor say that this kind of disease is prone to recurrence, and if it recurs, it's no fun. So I have to keep taking the medication to prevent it from coming back!

I think I was lucky, relatively young, and my brain attack symptoms were relatively mild, so I recovered very well. When I was hospitalized at that time, the whole floor was basically full of elderly patients, and there were very few who were as young as me.

In our neighborhood, I often see a moncler outlet online every day slowly in other people's assistance step by step to move step exercise, a look is like me is a cerebral infarction patients, see him that kind of I really feel the same ah! After almost a month's time, when I saw him again, he was much better, at least he didn't need to be assisted by others, he could walk little by little, I believe it will be better in the future.

I'm better now, but it was a lesson for me. I had high blood pressure a long time ago, but my body didn't feel any discomfort, so I didn't pay attention to it. Some time before I had a brain attack, I had drooling in my sleep, and if I had paid attention to it at that time and sought medical treatment early, I wouldn't have had such a brain attack.

Therefore, it is important to do early prevention, find out that there is a situation in time to seek medical treatment, do not wait for the fire before treatment that will be too late!