How long does it usually take to recover from a stroke?

There are about 2 million new stroke cases in my country every year, of which more than 70% belong to cerebral infarction, and patients with cerebral infarction are often prone to inability to take care of themselves, which brings a heavy burden to the patient's family and life.

So, how long does it usually take to recover from a cerebral infarction?

In fact, there is no clear standard answer to this. The recovery period of cerebral infarction is related to many factors, such as the type of cerebral infarction, the specific location of cerebral infarction, the size of the infarct size, the timing of treatment, the time for rehabilitation, and the occurrence of cerebral infarction. The physical condition before the infarction, the assistance of family members in recovery, and the patient's own ideology and will are all related.

If the patient only has a lacunar cerebral infarction, that is, the cerebral infarction area is relatively small, and the location of the cerebral infarction does not have a great impact on the function of the brain, the patient with this cerebral infarction often only has mild dizziness, dizziness or For headaches and other symptoms, patients only need to take medicine for about 1 week and may improve their recovery;

If the patient has a progressive cerebral infarction, that is, 6 hours after the cerebral infarction, the condition will continue to aggravate, and the infarct size will continue to increase. If the treatment is not timely, the serious can not be saved. Even if it is rescued, it will leave serious sequelae, and the patient will need longer recovery time at this time;

Of course, there are still a small number of patients with cerebral infarction that can be cured. For example, some patients have a myxoma in the heart that fell off and just fell into his skull. After the thrombus is resolved, it is completely possible to cure it; but most patients with cerebral infarction will leave more or less sequelae, because most of the clinical cerebral infarction is caused by arteriosclerosis, and it is basically difficult to cure!

However, in general, patients with sequelae such as hemiplegia due to cerebral infarction must seize the most important, most effective, and the fastest recovery period within one year of onset.

Especially in the first half year after the onset of the disease, it can be said to be the golden period for the recovery of cerebral infarction, and it is also the most likely time for the patient to fully recover. For patients at this stage, it is recommended that those who have the conditions should stay in a professional rehabilitation hospital under the guidance of a professional rehabilitation doctor. Rehabilitation below.

Once half a year after the onset of cerebral infarction, the patient can choose to have a professional doctor formulate a plan for further rehabilitation and intensive training at home, and family members should help the patient with auxiliary training, especially those patients with inconvenience such as hemiplegia. He can no longer move or talk. At this time, family members must help him exercise or communicate with him more so that he can slowly get a good recovery, and he must pay attention to perseverance. The recovery of cerebral infarction patients is a relatively long period of time. time.

Their recovery is like when we learned to walk and talk when we were young. We may be able to walk as fast as 3 months, but we can walk very well. There is no time like when we were young, about 10 months, which is very difficult. , And speaking, we can’t speak at birth. It takes about a year to call our parents from the beginning. The rehabilitation of patients with cerebral infarction also takes so long in this regard, especially for the rehabilitation of upper limb hemiplegia, the most Slow, patients with cerebral infarction at home know that walking will be faster to recover, but it is still difficult to let the hands move freely.

However, no matter how difficult it is, as long as cerebral infarction patients insist on professional rehabilitation training and grasp the time within one year, they can get significant improvement, but once one year has passed, it is basically difficult to recover!