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29. How to recognise a stroke –
Would you recognise a medical emergency in yourself or another? In the second in our series on health crises, Di Websdale-Morrissey reflects on how to recognise and respond to a suspected stroke .
FROM PREVIOUS ISSUES
- Felden what? – Have you learnt to live with back, knee or joint pain? Are you frustrated by not being able to do things you once could, because of an injury or illness? Or maybe you want to be a better problem-solver? The Feldenkrais technique can help with all this, says Kate Johnston.
- A pain in the...knee – Shoulder pain spoiling your day and cramping your style? Jane Banting explains about ‘older' shoulders and how to manage them.
- A pain in the...knee – Physiotherapist Jane Banting explains the pains that can affect the older knee, and how to manage them.
- GIVING the gift of life – A life was not just changed but saved with Colleen Gilbey's gift of a kidney to her ailing elder brother.
- Sound Therapy – Your partner suffers selective deafness? Perhaps not. Ears can suffer damage over the years, which traditional hearing tests won't pick up. Sound therapy may provide the cure.
- Future Fit – You’re taking some time for yourself and you want to get fit. Physiotherapist Jane Banting offers some simple, low-risk fitness advice to get you energised and moving.
- Take Heart – those with storng, steady hearts often take them for granted. But those with less reliable organs can now hope, with appropriate medical management, to lead longer, healthier lives.
- Feeling Blue understanding depression as a treatable condition
- The Big Stretch the benefits of yoga
- Prostate Cancer: one man’s story
- Stay Well Naturally- Stay well Naturally
- Essential Guide to Good Health- Tash Prendergast outlines the essential checkpoints for health maintenance and enhancement for the over 50s
- - The Ups and Downs of Viagra
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