Recovery After Stroke

Ramandeep "Bobby" Chaggar is a veterinary surgeon originally from India, now living in Melbourne. In December 2023, he had a right ischaemic pontine stroke and had to find out, in real time, whether the belief he grew...

He was 16 years old. On September 22, 2017, everything changed. Benjamin Miller was a football player in Texas when a carotid artery dissection ended his career and split his sense of self in two. His brain began to...

Cassie Jewell is a counsellor and author who was running behavioural health programs inside a US jail when, at 42, an ischaemic stroke in her right basal ganglia arrived two days after she was demoted from the job she...

At sixty-five, Tom Ballo's stroke gave no warning at all — and eighteen months later, he says he's had exactly one bad day. Tom Ballo is a retired telecoms litigator of 32 years who suffered a massive hemorrhagic stroke...

She survived a stroke at 34, but three years later, a new fear moved in: seizures she sometimes can't feel coming. Jonathan and Letitia Hritz join Bill to share what's happened since Letitia's ischemic stroke at 34 the...

There's a question underneath "I just want to be who I was" - and it isn't about the past. Jaemin Frazer is a coach with nearly two decades and 16,000 hours of practice behind him, and the founder of The Insecurity...

Someone asked me whether citicoline actually helps the brain recover after injury. So I read the major clinical trials — including the big ones that found no benefit at all. Here's the honest picture, not the marketing...

Someone in this community asked a version of a question I hear often: Is there any real research behind supplements for healing the brain after a bleed? I went looking, and one common kitchen spice compound kept showing...

You can do everything right in rehab and still hit a wall, and the reason may have nothing to do with your rehab. Dr. Robert Hedaya returns for his third conversation on Recovery After Stroke. He is Clinical Professor...

Ben Sautter spent decades living a double life: a respected city supervisor by day, involved in drug trafficking and reckless behaviour he felt no guilt over by night. In 2017, a carotid artery stroke changed that. In...

What happens when the person legally responsible for your medical decisions is your teenage daughter, thousands of kilometres from home? Kylie Ralston was 56, living and working in Bulgaria, when a haemorrhagic stroke...

Documentary Watch Link: https://youtu.be/I5SEhR6X7lo What happens when a one-percenter biker who built his entire identity on physical strength loses half his body and picks up a camera instead? Shayne DeMarce is a...

What if the fatigue you're blaming on your stroke is actually coming from a gland in your neck? Dr. Robert Hedaya, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical Center and a pioneer of functional...

What happens when the woman whose voice was her career wakes up unable to speak? Michelle Lee Clemens was a 25-year-old EMMY-nominated news anchor in Green Bay, Wisconsin, when a heart infection led to a brain...

What does it take to raise two teenagers alone while learning to walk again from scratch? Jeff Manuel was working two jobs and raising his son and daughter on his own when a stroke at 52 left him unable to move his left...