A veteran therapist, Tim Readman is the Executive Director of the Stroke Recovery Association of British Columbia and Professor at the UBC School of Rehabilitation Sciences in the Faculty of Medicine. He was also recently…
AVERT, which stands for A Very Early Rehabilitation Trial for Stroke, is the world’s largest randomized multicenter trial conducted in stroke rehabilitation to date. It compares very early mobilization within 24 hours after symptom onset…
Supporting stroke survivors is a local business. But in the East Bellevue, there was no such group until two stroke survivors, Laurie Byrd and Liz Rasmussen decided to take action. As part of recovery,…
A father of five, and a former basketball player, on December 23, 2014, Lee suffered from his first stroke. He woke up incoherent and unable to speak. Lee had no idea what was happening. He…
It is widely believed that stroke recovery ends by the 18th month. In 2017, a case has been published that a Canadian survivor John Humphrey made significant recover on his motor skills 23 years after…
