Left Side Stroke

This article provides informations on left side stroke of the brain and it's effects.Undoubtedly,a stroke will significantly affect the person's quality of life.

Your brain becomes deprived of blood, oxygen and nutrients when either a blockage of the cerebral arteries or a hemorrhage of the arterial wall happens. In as little as 4 minutes, the brain cell begins to die, which can lead to paralysis or death.

The effects of a stroke will depend on which side of the brain was affected. Keep in mind that our human brains are divided into the right and left hemisphere, with each part performing specific functions. In this article, we will be discussing the left side stroke, which means that it is the left hemisphere where the brain attack occurred.

Symptoms

Because the connections are crossed between the brain's hemispheres and the body's sides, when a stroke happens on the left hemisphere it is the right side of the body that manifests the symptoms. Thus, when doctors provide a diagnosis of a left side brain attack, it is because of the observation that the right side of the body is showing the greater amount of weakness and paralysis as well as numbing and tingling.

And since the left hemisphere controls the thought processes, language ability and logic capacity of the person, other symptoms will include inability to speak and understand language, confusion and irrational train of thought as well as a lesser level of consciousness. Common symptoms between the two types of strokes like facial drooping, nausea, vomiting and headaches are also present.

Effects

As previously implied, the effects of a left side stroke will center on the partial or complete loss of a person's capacity for language and logic. To be more specific:

* Aphasia refers to the partial or complete impairment of language ability such that the person has difficulty in comprehending or producing either spoken or written language or both. Thus, there is incoherent speech and repetition of words during inappropriate times.

* Visual problems including partial or total blindness on the right eye

* Difficulty in following logical processes including simple directions and instructions

* Memory problems including the difficulty to learn new information and retain it

And of course, there will be partial or complete paralysis of the right side of the body. Even when control is regained on the body, the face may still give away the person's condition as a stroke sufferer because of a slight facial drooping resulting in obvious facial asymmetry.

Rehabilitation

Fortunately, sufferers of a left side stroke have hope on their side for many reasons. For one thing, prompt and proper treatment can reverse the brain attack that the ill effects are significantly lesser. Said treatment must be provided at the start of the stroke.

For another thing, the brain's right hemisphere has the amazing capacity to take up what its left counterpart has lost in the stroke. Of course, it will be a slow process but it is possible to regain control over most of the lost abilities.

Indeed, life after a stroke can be good. It all depends on the rehabilitation options, personal attitude and support system that the person possesses in his life.

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