Medical breakthrough for stroke patients
Medical breakthrough for stroke patients
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0.32 -> now a medical breakthrough happening for
2.48 -> stroke patients right here in the
3.919 -> houston area houston's only tv health
5.839 -> reporter haley hernandez is joining us
7.52 -> once again and this new procedure is
9.519 -> helping patients dealing with aphasia
11.28 -> haley it's a it's a type of therapy yeah
13.44 -> and when therapy visits run out at other
16.16 -> places or the patient has plateaued with
18.72 -> progress the houston aphasia recovery
21.119 -> center helps people learn to live
23.119 -> successfully with their aphasia and
25.84 -> ability to pay isn't holding anyone back
28.88 -> i don't know i wasn't connected to
30.56 -> either one of normal conversations about
32.48 -> sports and food are all part of a
34.399 -> therapeutic exercise here at the aphasia
36.559 -> recovery center just taking the key
38.64 -> words of the conversation and putting
40.96 -> them down in a visual form can really
43.28 -> help some people with aphasia to
45.44 -> understand what's going on in the
46.719 -> conversation but in general it's a
49.76 -> language disorder that can get better
51.36 -> over time that's what happened to tom
53.44 -> pickett he lost language after his
55.44 -> stroke and today he carries on
57.039 -> conversations even when he struggles to
59.44 -> find a word he remembers how to figure
61.6 -> them out it's a problem with my
64.64 -> numbers
65.84 -> you know
66.799 -> or the letters i go
70.159 -> five five okay five
73.04 -> tom comes here twice a week admittedly
75.6 -> he didn't enjoy it at first can i go
78.56 -> well
79.52 -> i don't know
81.84 -> and slowly hey how are you
84.96 -> now he finds comfort in socializing with
87.36 -> others who know exactly what he's going
89.04 -> through it's uh
91.36 -> fantastic for me the
93.759 -> songs and singing
95.84 -> what a wonderful hope today they
99.04 -> practice for a musical an annual
100.799 -> tradition since singing can sometimes
102.96 -> come easier than speaking and eventually
105.84 -> it all builds confidence which can be
108.079 -> harder than the speech to rebuild so
110.56 -> kathleen says it does not impede their
113.759 -> intelligence they still know what they
115.68 -> want to say
117.04 -> it's just hard to get the words from
118.96 -> here out their mouth so the public
121.6 -> giving someone if they meet someone with
123.36 -> aphasia giving them extra time to speak
126.24 -> still treating them like an intelligent
127.84 -> adult
128.959 -> and i think that they'd really
130.239 -> appreciate it
132.48 -> and people with aphasia sometimes have
134.319 -> more difficulty communicating in
136.08 -> stressful situations like with the
137.92 -> police or an emergency room interaction
140.48 -> so hark helps by giving them cards like
143.44 -> these they can carry around in their
145.12 -> wallet it can help you open it up give
147.2 -> suggestions like let me write something
149.68 -> down please slow down your speaking or
152.16 -> hand gestures that they can give for yes
154.56 -> and no and hopefully that encourages
156.8 -> patience to get through those stressful
159.12 -> conversations keith
161.04 -> i
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7ujMu_oJMY