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As a long-term maintenance program, you'll generally need to continue the habits and follow the skills you learned for the rest of your life. After about three months, you likely will have developed y...

Phase 3 is designed to help you continue to maintain a healthier lifestyle through supervised exercise sessions and health education. Phase 3 is an extension of Phase 2 with the emphasis to further ac...

A medically supervised exercise and education program that helps patients who have a heart condition or are recovering from a heart event. By working with your health care providers, you can reduce th...

In telestroke, doctors who have advanced training in the nervous system (neurologists) remotely evaluate people who've had acute strokes and make diagnoses and treatment recommendations to emergency m...

Getting immediate medical attention after the first signs of a stroke increases the possibility that you may receive clot-dissolving therapies (such as TPA) or other clot-retrieving procedures in time...

Scott Gunderson Scott is a typical working father of three young children. His days are full of work meetings, play dates, golf games and helping manage his busy family’s calendar. He also is a ...

While everyone is at risk for stroke, you have the power to help protect yourself. Start by following the 10 tips listed here, getting regular checkups and treatment for any existing conditions, and a...

Doctors generally classify seizures as either focal or generalized, based on the abnormal brain activity. Focal seizures Seizures that appear to result from abnormal activity in just one area of your...

Learn more about epilepsy with these facts: You can’t swallow your tongue during a seizure. It’s physically impossible. You should never force something into the mouth of someone ...

Medications are typically the first line of treatment for patients with epilepsy. However, vagus nerve stimulation may be helpful if you continue to struggle with breakthrough seizures. It has effect...