Some 700,000 Americans suffer a stroke each year, often with devastating consequences. With nearly three thousand physiatric physicians convening for their 64th annual assembly, Doctor Robert Krug of the Rehabilitation Hospital of Connecticut and St. Francis Medical Center, told the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation that there is a four to six hour window to reverse the consequences of stroke:
�And now we have agents or medications that can be given in the acute phase that can literally dissolve that clot. And we have radiologists who especially trained to literally take a fine catheter and deliver the medication directly to where it needs to be given and it�s truly amazing in that you can get total reversal of the effects of the stroke � if it�s done early on. The key point I want to mention is that it�s crucial that once you�re experiencing any signs or symptoms of a stroke, that you get medical attention immediately.�
After patients are treated for stroke, their typical initial rehabilitation period will last two to three weeks.
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