What Should You Do If Having A Stroke Alone?

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• Stroke is a rising risk in the industrialized world, but what should you do if having a stroke by yourself?

  • Today’s main feature discusses what to do, and importantly, what not to do!

• We know that 10almonds readers don’t just want to look younger, but ideally to be younger, biologically speaking.

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• Today’s featured book will enable you to dust off that foam roller that you bought and forgot about, and actually put it to use correctly to get noticeable health benefits throughout your body!

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❝Thank you for the video about what to do if you have a heart attack alone, what about what to do if you have a stroke alone?❞

(for anyone who missed that video, here it is)

That’s a good question, especially as stroke risk is rising in the industrialized world in general, and the US in particular.

However, let’s start with the caveat that if you are having a stroke, there’s a good chance you will forget what we are about to say, what with the immediate effects it has on the brain. That said…

The general advice when it comes to looking after someone else who is experiencing a stroke, is, “don’t”.

In other words, call emergency services, and don’t do anything else, e.g:

• don’t give them anything to eat or drink

• don’t give them any medications

• don’t let them go to sleep

• don’t let them talk you out of calling emergency services

• don’t let them drive themselves to hospital

• don’t drive them to hospital yourself either*

*This is for two reasons:

1. an ambulance crew has skills and resources that you don’t, and can begin treatment en-route, and also,

2. not all hospitals have appropriate resources to treat stroke, so the ambulance crew will know to drive to one that does, instead of driving to a random hospital and hoping for the best

So, flipping this for if it’s you having the stroke, and you’re cognizant enough to remember this:

• do call an ambulance; stay on the line and don’t do anything else unless instructed by the emergency services.

In order to do that, of course it’s important to recognize the symptoms; you probably know these but just in case, the mnemonic is “FAST”:

• Face: is there weakness on one side of their face?

• Arms: if they raise both arms, does one drift downwards?

• Speech: if they speak, is their speech slurred or otherwise unusual?

• Time: to call emergency services

It’s great to not get caught out by surprise, so you might also want to check out:

6 Signs Of Stroke (One Month In Advance)

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One-Minute Book Review

Foam Rolling: 50 Exercises for Massage, Injury Prevention, and Core Strength – by Karina Inkster

If you’ve ever bought a foam roller only to place it under your lower back once and then put it somewhere for safekeeping and never use it again, this book will help fix that.

Karina Inkster (what a cool name) is a personal trainer, and the book also features tips and advice from physiotherapists and sports medicine specialist doctors too, so all bases are well and truly covered.

This is not, in case you’re wondering, a book that could have been a pamphlet, with photos of the exercises and one-liner explanation and that’s it. Rather, Inkster takes us through the anatomy and physiology of what’s going on, so that we can actually use this thing correctly and get actual noticeable improvements to our health from it—as promised in the subtitle’s mention of “for massage, injury prevention, and core strength”. To be clear, a lot of it is also about soft tissue mobilization, and keeping our fascia healthy (an oft-underestimated aspect of general mobility).

We would mention that since the photos are pleasantly colorful (like those on the cover) and this adds to the clarity, we’d recommend springing for the (quite inexpensive) physical copy, rather than a Kindle edition (if your e-reader is a monochrome e-ink device like this reviewer’s, anyway).

Bottom line: this book will enable your foam roller to make a difference to your life.

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