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Informationen zum Autor Joel Stein, M.D., is the chief medical officer at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and associate professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School. Julie K. Silver, M.D., is the medical director of one of Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital's outpatient centers, located in Framingham, Massachusetts. This center is the home of an oncology rehabilitation program that Dr. Silver directs called RESTORE (www.cancer-rehab.org), which focuses on helping cancer survivors to physically heal. Dr. Silver is also an assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School and on the medical staff of Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's Hospitals in Boston, Massachusetts. She has edited and written more than a dozen books and is a co-author of Life After Stroke: The Guide to Recovering Your Health and Preventing Another Stroke, also published by Johns Hopkins. She is the recipient of the 2006 Lane Adams Quality of Life Award, the American Cancer Society's most prestigious award. Klappentext Every 45 seconds someone in the United States has a stroke. The survivors -- about five million at any given time -- face a host of physical, practical, and emotional challenges. In this compassionate guide, physicians who treat people with stroke cover the path to recovery with practical advice on treatment, rehabilitation, and lifestyle changes that can help prevent a recurrence. Life After Stroke offers hope and optimism to stroke survivors and their families. Zusammenfassung Relating patients' experiences and bringing readers up to date on promising new treatments! Life After Stroke offers hope to stroke survivors and their families.
