Stroke Support Alliance

Indian Alliance of Patients Groups and DakshamA Health welcomes stroke survivors, care provider, care giver and doctors for the webinar on topic, “Stroke and Mental Health”. Speakers for the webinar: Speaker 1: Dr. Nand Kumar, MBBS, MD (Psychiatry), Prof. In charge ICMR CARE in Neuromodulation for Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, AIIMS, New Delhi Speaker 2: Dr. Madhuri Behari , Consultant Neurology, Fortis Vasant Kunj

Indian Alliance of Patients Groups and DakshamA Health welcomes stroke survivors, care provider, care giver and doctors for the webinar on topic, “Steps to Recover - What to do After Stroke?”. What will be covered: Speaker 1: Dr. Sudhir Kumar, Consultant Neurologist at Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad Topic: Stroke and its magnitude in India, importance of early recognition and intervention Speaker 2: Dr. Anirudh Chirania, Consultant physiatrist APOKOS(Joint venture between Apollo Hospitals India and KOS Italy ) Rehabilitation Hospital Topic: Rehabilitation challenges in India- What can be done?

In this short video, a young stroke survivor shares her experiences and journey of becoming a strong stroke warrior. She stated that how important it is for a common person to be vigilant about the diseases and other things going around. Awareness plays an important role in saving one’s life. She was aware about the signs and symptoms of stroke that has helped her in reaching the stroke ready hospital on time. Stroke is an Emergency, thus early interventions and recognition can save one’s life from lifelong disability. To watch full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYIhpETL5rE

In this video a young stroke survivor talks about his stroke journey. His positive attitude and determination kept him going forward in his life. He stated that how his family members and caregivers has supported him in coming out of the post-traumatic stress. The zeal of fighting till the end we achieve is all we need. To watch the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDAgoh7a0Gk Stroke survivors and caregivers can join our Stroke Support Alliance Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Strokesupportalliance WhatSapp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/DVbK1urPS2h3j1hq3eZ8bm Visit us at: http://www.strokesupportalliance.org/

Dr. Shirish Hastak talks about the Stroke ready ambulance and how it can be taken forward in India. Stroke is an emergency, early intervention and diagnosis can save the life. To watch full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYIhpETL5rE

In this video Dr. Dharam Pandey, explains about the spasticity in stroke patients and it’s management. He also gave some of the insights about the role of Botox therapy in stroke patients.