Stroke 101
Risk Factors
Prevention
Treatment
100
This is when something stops the normal blood flow in the brain.
What is a stroke?
100
This person helps people who have a stroke.
What is a doctor?
100

These are foods to eat that keep your body healthy and strong.

What are fruits and vegetables?

100
A intravenous line through a vein to give medicine.
What is an IV?
200
These are the tubes that circulate blood in your body.
What art arteries and veins?
200
This is a number to call when you see someone having a stroke.
What is 911?
200
A person you should go see once a year to see if you are healthy.
What is a doctor?
200
A doctor might give this to the patient to help with blood clots and blood thinning through an IV.
What is medicine?
300

This is a type of stroke where a blood vessel going to the brain is blocked, and can't get where it's supposed to be.

What is an ischemic stroke?

300
This is the place to take a person who had a stroke.
What is a hospital?
300
A dangerous, unhealthy habit and puts chemicals into your body and can cause a stroke.
What is smoking?
300
A procedure a doctor may do to take out blood clots using their special tools.
What is surgery?
400
A type of stroke that happens when a weak blood vessel bursts and hurts the brain cells.
What is a hemorrhagic stroke?
400

Tell them to smile, raise their arms, and talk to see if anything is wrong and calling 911 right away at the first sign of a stroke.

What is the Act F.A.S.T procedure?

400

This is too much pressure of blood against the blood vessel walls as the heart pumps, that can cause a stroke.

What is high blood pressure?

400
These are types of therapies someone may need after a stroke.
What is speech therapy, physical therapy, or occupational therapy?
500
These are also "mini strokes" where the blood flow is cut off for a short amount of time.
What are transient ischemic attacks?
500
Numbness on one side of the body, headache, dizziness loss of balance, trouble talking or understanding what people are saying, difficulty seeing.
What are symptoms of a stroke?
500
Running, walking, playing sports, dancing, and going outside.
What are ways to stay active?
500
When people to relearn basic things after a stroke, like walking, talking, writing, or eating.
What is rehabilitation?
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