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Below are past issues of Stroke Recovery Tips, the quarterly newsletter by Stroke-Rehab.com. Under each link is the content of that newsletter. Subscribe at the bottom of this page for future issues!

Stroke Recovery Tips Fall 2023 Issue

Inside this issue:

  • Post-Stroke Fatigue
  • Gait and Mobility Exercises
  • Caregiver Corner: Medical Complications After Stroke
  • Gift Ideas for Stroke Survivors

Stroke Recovery Tips Summer 2023 Issue

Inside this issue:

  • Preventing a Second Stroke
  • Fine Motor Exercises
  • What Causes a Stroke
  • Caregiver Corner: Planning for the Future
  • How Much and What Kind of Exercise Do Stroke Patients Need?


Stroke Recovery Tips, Fall 2018 Issue

Inside this issue:

  • Improving Balance After Stroke
  • Movement Disorders After 
  • Caregiver Corner - Tips for Traveling 
  • Cognitive Rehabilitation


Stroke Recovery Tips, Spring 2018 Issue

Inside this issue:

  • Why Am I Not Achieving my Rehab Goals
  • Ideas for Goals
  • Sensation Problems in the Lower Extremity
  • Personality Changes After Stroke
  • Caregiver Corner - Tips for Dealing with Your Loved One’s Apathy
  • Making Sure Visual Impairment is Addressed in Stroke Patients
  • Free Aphasia and Speech Therapy Resources


Stroke Recovery Tips 4th Quarter Issue

Inside this issue

  • Symptoms Worsening
  • Knee Hyper-extension
  • Fatigue After Stroke
  • Caregiver Corner - Tips for Daily Care


Stroke Recovery Tips, July 2017 3rd Quarter Issue

Inside this issue:

  • Seizures After Stroke
  • Variability in Stroke Effects and Treament
  • Innovative Stroke Support Groups
  • Caregiver Corner - Financial Resources After Stroke
  • Stroke Rehab Videos


Stroke Recovery Tips, January 2017 Issue

Inside this issue:

  • Brain Healing After Stroke
  • New Stroke Forum
  • Community Reintegration After Stroke
  • Improving Mobility and Gait After Stroke
  • Caregiver Corner - Right vs. Left Hemisphere Stroke


Stroke Recovery Tips, November 2016 Issue

Inside this issue:

  • Rehab Tips for Common Problems After Stroke
  • Caregiver Corner - Answers to Common Questions by Caregivers


Stroke Recovery Tips, September 2016 Issue

Inside this issue:

  • Using High Repetitions in Stroke Rehab
  • Can I Return to Driving After Stroke
  • Stroke Rehab Guidelines
  • Caregiver Corner - Long Distance Caregiving


Stroke Recovery Tips, July 2016 Issue

Inside this issue:

  • Technology in Stroke Rehab
  • Cognitive Retraining
  • Caregiver Corner - Ideas for Patient Boredom


Stroke Recovery Tips, April 2016 Issue

Inside this issue:

  • Using Suspension for Therapy
  • Alternative Therapies
  • Caregivers Corner: Attributes for Successful Caregiving


Stroke Recovery Tips, February 2016 Issue

Inside this issue:

  • What is Wrong with My Hand?
  • Understanding Techniques to “Rewire” the Brain
  • Caregivers Corner: Finding a Therapist


Stroke Recovery Tips, January 2016 Issue

Inside this issue:

  • Positioning After a Stroke
  • Stroke Rehab for the Paralyzed Limb
  • Caregivers Corner: Online Stroke Support Forums


Stroke Recovery Tips, November 2015 Issue

Inside this issue:

  • Exercises to Improve Walking and Gait Speed
  • Finding a Gym for Stroke Patients
  • Ataxia
  • Caregivers Corner—Home Alone or Not?


Stroke Recovery Tips, September 2015 Issue

Inside this issue:

  • Moving Beyond Basic Balance Exerices
  • Do You Know How You Feel? (sensation issues)
  • Caregivers Corner—What Do I Need to Know


Stroke Recovery Tips, July 2015 Issue

Inside this issue:

  • Getting the Hand to Open
  • After Stroke
  • Stroke Clinical Trials
  • Stroke Rehab e-book
  • Caregivers Corner—Saving Your Marriage


Stroke Recovery Tips, May 2015 Issue

Inside this issue:

  • Unique One Handed Products
  • Rehabilitation Plan
  • Manipulating Objects in the Hand 
  • Caregivers Corner— Complacency with Stroke Recovery 


Stroke Recovery Tips, April 2015 Issue

Inside this issue:

  • Hoarseness and Voice Therapy
  • Massage Therapy and Stroke
  • Complex Regional Pain Syn-drome
  • Caregivers Corner—Top Tips


Stroke Recovery Tips, March 2015 Issue

Inside this issue:

  • Visual Changes After Stroke
  • Stroke Effects in Different Parts of the Brain
  • Aspiration
  • Caregivers Corner—Finding Equipment


Stroke Recovery Tips, January 2015 Issue

Inside this issue:

  • Stroke and Pseudobulbar Affect
  • Goals and Stroke Recovery
  • Balance Exercises
  • Caregivers Corner: Fall Prevention


Stroke Recovery Tips, November 2014 Issue

Inside this issue:

  • Medications and Stroke Risk
  • Exercises for Facial Paralysis or Facial Droop
  • Keeping on Track with Recovery
  • Caregivers Corner: End of Life Planning


Stroke Recovery Tips, September 2014 Issue

Inside this issue:

  • Taking Care of Yourself After Stroke
  • Improving Balance
  • How to Make Rehabilitation More Interesting
  • Caregivers Corner: Keeping up With Information


Stroke Recovery Tips, August 2014 Issue

Inside this issue:

  • Dysarthria 
  • Improving Dexterity/Fine Motor Skills  
  • Task Specific Training
  • Caregivers Corner—Transfer Aids


Stroke Recovery Tips, June 2014 Issue

Inside this issue:

  • Mirror Box Therapy 
  • Driving After Stroke 
  • Sex After Stroke 
  • Caregivers Corner—Leisure Activities for Stroke Rehab


Stroke Recovery Tips, April 2014 Issue

Inside this issue:

  • Unilateral Neglect 
  • Apraxia
  • Depression and Stroke
  • Caregivers Corner—Respite Care


Stroke Recovery Tips, March 2014 Issue

Inside this issue:

  • Movement Disorders Attributed to Stroke
  • Short Term Memory Deficits
  • Central Pain Syndrome
  • Caregivers Corner—What’s for Dinner?
  • Dealing with Stubborn Hand Edema


Stroke Recovery Tips, December 2013 Issue

Inside this issue: 

  • Preventing Heart Attack and Stroke During the Holidays
  • Standing Balance Exercises
  • Physical Exercise Recommen-dations for Stroke Patients
  • Caregivers Corner—Preventing Holiday Burnout
  • Strategies to Help with Neglect of One Side


Stroke Recovery Tips, November 2013 Issue

Inside this issue:

  • Home Modification for Stroke Patients
  • Constraint Induced Move-ment Therapy
  • Evidenced Based Therapy
  • Caregivers Corner—Seizures
  • Robotics in Stroke Rehab


Stroke Recovery Tips, October 2013 Issue

Inside this issue:

  • Bed Positioning for Stroke Patients
  • Hemiplegic Dressing Tech-niques
  • Standing Leg Exercises
  • Caregivers Corner—Communicating with Physicians


Stroke Recovery Tips, September 2013 Issue

Inside this issue: 

  • Emotional and Mental Changes After Stroke 
  • Unilateral Neglect 
  • Leg Exercises
  • Caregivers Corner— Emergency Room Preparedness 
  • Can a Stroke Patient Change Their Will?


Stroke Recovery Tips, August 2013 Issue

Inside this issue:

  • Orthotics for the Foot
  • Exercise Tip of the Month—Weight Bearing to Weaker Leg 
  • Aphasia Home Exercises
  • Caregivers Corner—Interacting with Respect
  • Clinical Trials


Stroke Recovery Tips, June/July 2013 Issue

Inside this issue:

  • Recovering From Upper Extremity Hemiplegia
  • Exercise Tip of the Month
  • Helpful Stroke Websites
  • Caregivers Corner— Helpful Caregiver Websites 
  • Tips for Dealing with Incontinence


Stroke Recovery Tips, April 2013 Issue

Inside this issue:

  • Recovering Balance After Stroke
  • Exercise Tip of the Month—Scapular Mobilization
  • Adaptive Clothing
  • Caregivers Corner—Take Care of Yourself
  • Edema in the Hand


Stroke Recovery Tips, March 2013 Issue

Inside this issue:

  • Recovering Fine Motor Skills After Stroke
  • Home Safety for the Stroke Patient 
  • Caregiver’s Corner—Don’t be an Enabler
  • Checking Vision After Stroke


Stroke Recovery Tips, February 2013 Issue 

Inside this issue:

  • Adaptive Equipment and Clothing
  • Following Through with Home Exercise Program
  • Apps for Stroke, 
  • Latest Stroke Research


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