The second of four short films portraying one stroke patient’s journey in research is now available to view.
Often stroke treatments focus on the physical recovery, but the psychological effects of a stroke can be can be just as disabling.
Around 90 per cent of stroke survivors will experience impairment in their cognitive abilities such as memory, attention, action planning, judgement, and reasoning – which are all important for everyday life. These impairments are not always obvious and as a result, are often overlooked.
In part two of his journey Brin meets researcher Wai-Ling Bickerton who is working on a study looking at how the cognitive affects of stroke can be better assessed, with a view to designing better recovery programmes for stroke patients.
“Taking part in the BCoS study has given me an insight into the recovery that I have made so far and more of an insight into the hope I can have for making future recovery.”
Brin Helliwell, stroke patient
“It was really useful to hear Brin’s feedback about how the BCoS tool confirmed his recovery so far, and gave him an insight into the residual effects of his stroke”
Wai-Ling Bickerton, research fellow
Part 2: Insight, was released today, 14 October 2011. Subsequent episodes will be released on each Friday over the next two weeks in the run up to World Stroke Day which takes place on 29 October. If you want to find out what happens on the next leg of Brin’s Journey sign up to receive the e-newsletter.
