According to the World Stroke Organization, one-in-four people will suffer a stroke at some point in their life.

Stroke is a leading cause of long-term disability worldwide. Each year more than 15 million people worldwide have strokes, and three-quarters of stroke survivors will experience impairment, weakness ...

A sensor-equipped computer program was nearly 80% effective in identifying and counting arm movements in patients undergoing stroke rehabilitation, researchers from NYU Grossman School of Medicine ...

HOUSTON, Texas — An implanted device that stimulates the vagus nerve has shown promising improvement of arm function in stroke patients in a second small clinical study. While the primary endpoint — ...

A study published in the medical journal Nature on Monday found that targeted electrical pulses delivered to the spinal cord can help improve arm and hand movement after a stroke. Two patients were ...

Today at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery's (SNIS) 20th Annual Meeting, researchers discussed a smartphone app created that reliably recognizes patients' physical signs of stroke with the ...

As long as five years after suffering a stroke, people were able to regain use of a weak arm when their strong arm was restrained during two weeks of intensive therapy, new research shows. The study ...

In December 2011, Heather Rendulic awoke to a pricking, tingling feeling on the left side of her body. She later learned that a cluster of weak, tightly packed blood vessels near the base of her skull ...