After Stroke: Enhancing Quality of Life

by Wallace Sife

Book Overview

After Stroke: Enhancing Quality of Life brings together an extraordinary selection of advice, practical survivor techniques, information about resources, and personal stories of triumph. It is designed to help those who have experienced a stroke attain the highest quality of life possible, under their new physical restrictions.Recuperating from a stroke is an arduous process that has only just begun when the survivor is released from the hospital...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789003414
• ISBN13: 9780789003416
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Ready To Tell It Again

I wrote this short story, as I am disable, but working. It's been 14 years since the accident, and my life changed forever. Without words to match the feelings, words are the tool's of thought's and believing that I can do it.

Ready To Tell It Again

I wrote this book, as I am disable, but working. It's been 14 years since the accident, and my life changed forever

Especially helpful and filled with new perspectives.

This is the first (and only, so far) book that gives the perspectives of everyone involved when someone has a debilitating stroke. It is a surprisingly well-organized collection of essays from individual doctors, medical prsonnel, caregivers --through to the stroke patient, himself. Perhaps the best essay is is saved for the end of the book. It is written by the editor, Dr. Wallace Sife. He explains the two sides to healing: medical and spiritual. Nobody had ever written about that, and it is so important that it be addressed. Dr. Sife has given enlightenment and hope to his all his readers. This book is especially helpful for the stroke patient and his loved ones. They are scared, and need this kind of practical explanation, which is put into easily understandable, non-medical terms.