Stroke Rehabilitation

Sen. Mark Kirk, who suffered a stroke last month, is “adapting well” at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and has started walking on a treadmill. …...

PETOSKEY — This past summer, Karen Bissonette asked her doctor if she could have just three more months. The 63-year-old Indian River woman was on medication to control high blood pressure. Her doctor wanted her to take cholesterol lowering...

A shoe insert less than half of an inch high helped Phillip Conybear regain his balance after he suffered two strokes. "Ever since the first stroke (in 1993), I have had really bad balance," said Conybear, 61, of Woodridge, who suffered a second stroke...

Stroke victims who took the antidepressant Prozac for three months following the interruption of blood flow to the brain regained more mobility, and showed lower rates of depression, than those given a placebo pill, a new study has found. The European...

Harborside Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Baltimore told state regulators that it had laid off 71 workers, the state said Tuesday. The West Franklin Street facility said the layoff was effective Saturday, according to the state Department of Labor,...

Sen. Mark Kirk, who suffered a major stroke in January, has left the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and will continue treatment there as an outpatient, his family and an aide said Thursday. "We are happy to say … Mark has progressed to the...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Mark Kirk, who suffered a major stroke a month ago, is recovering quietly, with careful limits on both his visitors and information about his condition. Kirk, 52, is being treated at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago after...