TOLEDO, Ohio — For many families, the tradition of yelling "play ball!" at a baseball game is fun, but expected. Shauna Rasor and her family? They are treating it as a miracle. "I think in this kind ...

Carol Rankin, a 65-year-old survivor, endured a hemorrhagic stroke with severe headache while horseback riding. Fast recognition and response to stroke symptoms by her riding instructor led to ...

Stroke is one of the leading causes of serious and complex adult disability; anyone reading this could be the next stroke ...

After a massive stroke left a young local man unable to walk, doctors initially doubted he'd recover. One person never had a ...

PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) - Colby Maury-Rice is now talking, walking and competing, just a year after suffering a heat-related stroke that left him in a coma for nearly two months. “It’s been a rocky ...

Leota Brown visits with daughter-in-law Geri Brown. Leota, 98, made a quick recovery that required no inpatient care after suffering a stroke. Leota Brown looks at a photo of her great-granddaughter.

Stroke recovery represents one of the most challenging yet hopeful journeys in medicine. While the brain damage from a stroke cannot be reversed, the remarkable ability of the human brain to rewire ...

Nearly 800,000 Americans experience a stroke each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, making it a leading cause of long-term disability in the United States. Behind this ...

A seismic shift is underway in how experts view functional recovery after a stroke. For years, the prevailing belief was that regaining limb mobility beyond 6 months was nearly impossible, as damaged ...

About 25% of Americans will experience a stroke, according to Steven Edgley, MD, director of stroke rehabilitation at University of Utah Health since 2006. Edgley knows full well how life-changing a ...

Nirupama Yechoor, MD, MSC, of the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the senior author of a paper published in JAMA Network Open, "Coherence of Stroke Survivors' Lived ...

DECATUR, Ga. - Carol Rankin counts herself among the fortunate survivors of a hemorrhagic stroke, a rare and deadly form of stroke. Rankin, 65, suffered the stroke while taking a horse-riding lesson ...