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Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- Together we are the most famous
physical therapists on the internet.
- In our opinion of course, Bob.
- Today we're gonna talk about
the number one sign you're about to have a stroke
in the next 12 months.
Plus we're gonna go over risk factors for a stroke.
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Let's move on Brad, okay.
I have a personal experience with this,
this actually happened to my father-in-law.
So what we're talking about, the number one sign
is if you have a TIA, that's a transient ischemic attack.
What they're also known as-
- Mini strokes.
- Yeah, like a mini stroke.
It's a warning, so one out of three who have a TIA
actually end up having a stroke in the year following.
- And you can actually have a mini stroke,
have the symptoms, and recover for it, all within minutes
and not even know you've had it
unless you're familiar with the symptoms.
So you're gonna have numbness or tingling,
one-sided problems, right side or left,
facial droop, possibly speech problems,
but it takes care of itself and then you go back to normal
and you think oh, well.
- Yeah, to go further on that,
you might have blurriness in one eye, or double vision.
You might have dizziness or decreased coordination,
like something's suddenly not working.
Or you might have a sudden severe headache,
especially if you're not one that normally gets one.
Can be, you know generally people I think that have a TIA
know that something's not right,
because it's pretty severe.
I misstated that a little bit, Brad.
In the year after about half of the, one out of three
who had a TIA, had a stroke,
but half of them had had it the year after.
So one out of three had a stroke,
but some of them it may have been two years after.
- Oh, I see.
- You know what I mean?
So, it's about, if you do the numbers
it's actually about 15 to 17% had it in the next year.
- So if you had those kind of symptoms, don't ignore them,
go to the doctor, and they can start putting you
on some petechial-
- So I gotta tell the story.
- Oh, yeah.
- So my father-in-law, this happened to him
when he was alive, he ended up having, we were right there,
it was a, kind of a family gathering.
- You witnessed the TIA.
- I witnessed it, and I said "I think you had a TIA"
and we obviously, we took him into to the hospital
and they believed he had one too, his blood pressure
was way out of control, his cholesterol
was way off the charts.
And he smoked at that time, and I sat down with him,
I had the talk, even though I was the son-in-law,
I felt like it was my place.
- Sure, well you're the professional.
- Well, and I said you know,
"you've got a warning shot here Brad,"
uh Brad, so John.
- (Brad laughs) Thanks, Bob.
- I said "you got a chance at not having a stroke here
by taking control of your life."
So, he smoked at the time, and I give him credit,
he stopped smoking right at that time,
he did it, he has passed away since, but not from a stroke.
So, but we're gonna make a recommendation for a book,
I've seen this one recommended a number of times now,
it seems like if there's any one book that's gonna work
for helping you stop smoking, it's this one
by Allen Carr, helped apparently
millions of people stop smoking.
Allen Carr's "Quit Smoking Without Willpower"
just as a testimonial on the top here it says,
"If you want to quit it's called the Easyway,"
by Ellen DeGeneres.
She's a big advocate of this, too.
- Sure, and then you can get that, we've got that
in our favorite book section below.
- Yeah, Mike will put a link to it below, so.
All right, so these are some of the risk factors
that are gonna put you at risk for a TIA or a stroke.
If your blood pressure's out of control, you know,
if you're one of those people that thinks,
"ah, you know, I don't need to deal with medications
or diet or anything like that, or lifestyle adjustments"
think again, you want to get that blood pressure into
a range that is acceptable.
- Right, right.
Number two, your blood sugars are high,
especially with uncontrolled diabetes.
That can damage the blood vessels, which can cause strokes.
- So yeah the stroke, for people who don't know,
it's either a blood vessel in your brain ruptures open-
- Bursts, yeah.
- Or it gets plugged up.
- Yeah.
- Typically they get plugged up,
I believe is more common than the uh-
- It is.
That's why they can do the TPA or the treatment right away.
And by the way, that's why it's very key
if you have symptoms like this,
to get to the hospital immediately.
Cause they can offer a medication
that can actually reverse the symptoms.
- Big difference in the recovery.
- Yeah, big difference.
I mean I've seen people that it,
literally it seemed like they didn't even have a stroke.
- So, good friend of mine.
- Oh really?
- Yep, yeah they got him in right away,
and they administered it and to this day,
you can't even see now that he had it.
If you smoked, like the one I talked about,
with my father-in-law, it's one of the highest risk factors
but if you quit, it actually can reverse over time.
The bad symptoms and size can reverse over time
if you stop smoking.
It's almost like you never smoked at all,
if you quit long enough.
- Yeah, that's one nice thing about smoking
is you can quit and it can reverse.
- Yeah, so we should have smoked in our early years
and then we could've quit.
(Brad laughs)
No, no, of course not.
Number four, high cholesterol,
you want to have optimal levels.
I think it's below 100 for your LDL, above 50 for your HDL,
below 200 for your total.
- They'll let you know, that's for sure.
- They'll let you know,
your triglycerides have to be one below 150.
And number five, obesity.
Weight loss occurs, I just wanted
to put this in here, Brad, because a lot of people
think that you lose weight by exercising.
- Right.
- Yes you can lose some weight, but really the main way
to lose weight, is with diet.
- Right.
- You lose weight at the table,
and you gain strength at the gym.
You know that's still, the way to think about it.
Some, I guess you could say like,
supposedly I think it was Coke or Pepsi,
they were putting out advertisements saying
that the reason you're gaining weight
is because you're not being active enough,
and they don't want to blame the sugar drinks for it?
I mean seriously, and so what they do instead is they blame
that you're not being active enough, and it's really no.
If you drank maybe less sugar drinks and less fatty foods
you might do a lot better.
- We both know people who are extremely active,
they're not obese but-
- Yeah, they can't get their weight down.
- Yeah, and it's just because pizzas, and sugar stuff
and you know, I used to do it myself.
It's fun you know, you go work out hard
and then you go have a big pizza.
- Exactly.
- You'd think you deserved it.
- You thought you could eat what you want,
and that's just not how it works unfortunately.
- Especially as you get older.
- Yeah, there's a little less cheating going on there, so.
All right, thanks everybody for watching.
- Enjoy.
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