Resources
| Description | URL |
|---|---|
| American Academy of Neurology is an international professional association dedicated to promoting the highest quality patient-centered neurological care. | http://patients.aan.com/disorders |
| American Society of Neurorehabilitation promotes the medical and social well being of persons with disabling neurological disorders, advances training and research in the basic and clinical sciences that can lead to functional recovery of neurologically impaired persons, and disseminates the knowledge of this research among professionals and the general public. | http://www.asnr.com/ |
| American Stroke Association, Division of the American Heart Association is focused on reducing risk, disability and death from stroke through research, education, fund raising and advocacy. The American Stroke Association was created by the American Heart Association after many years of increasing emphasis on stroke. | http://www.strokeassociation.org/STROKEORG/ |
| A Very Early Rehabilitation Trial for Stroke (AVERT) Very early rehabilitation, with an emphasis on mobilization, may contribute to improved outcomes after stroke. We hypothesized that a very early rehabilitation protocol would be safe and feasible. To determine if very early mobilization (VEM) of stroke patients in addition to standard care compared to standard care (SC) alone is more effective in lowering mortality, disability, and severity of complications at 3 months and at improving quality of life at 12 months. | http://www.strokecenter.org/trials/TrialDetail.aspx?tid=723 |
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a primary online communication channel which provides credible, reliable health and safety information i.e. data and statistics, environmental healthy, emergencies and disasters, environmental health, healthy living etc. | http://www.cdc.gov/stroke/ |
| ClinicalTrials.gov offers up-to-date information for locating federally and privately supported clinical trials for a wide range of diseases and conditions. ClinicalTrials.gov currently contains 98,248 trials sponsored by the National Institute of Health, other federal agencies, and private industry. Studies listed in the database are conducted in all 50 States and in 174 countries with over 50 million page views per month and 65,000 visitors daily. | http://clinicaltrials.gov |
| Disability.gov is an award-winning federal website that contains disability-related resources on programs, services, laws and regulations to help people with disabilities lead full, independent lives. Visitors can find critical information (on a variety of topics) including benefits, civil rights, community life, education, emergency preparedness, employment, housing, health, technology and transportation. Their mission is to connect people with disabilities and their family members, veterans, caregivers, employers and service providers, with the resources they need to ensure that everyone can fully participate in the workplace and their community. | http://www.disability.gov/ |
| National Institutes of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke conducts and supports research on brain and nervous system disorders. Their mission is to reduce the burden borne by every age group, every segment of society and people all over the world. NINDS supports and conducts basic, translational, and clinical research on the normal and diseased nervous system and fosters the training of investigators in the basic and clinical neurosciences, and seeks better understanding, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of neurological disorders. | http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/stroke/stroke.htm |
| National Stroke Association achieves its mission to lower the incidence and impact of stroke by developing compelling community outreach programs, calling for and educating both healthcare professionals and the general public about stroke. | http://www.stroke.org/ |
| Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center for Technologies for Successful Aging with Disability (OPTT-RERC) The overarching objective of this RERC is to optimize participation through technology (OPTT). OPTT-RERC will enhance the lives of individuals aging with and into disability. | http://www.isi.edu/research/rerc/ |
| The Brain Attack Coalition is a group of professional, voluntary and governmental entities dedicated to reducing the occurrence, disabilities and death associated with stroke. The goal is to strengthen and promote the relationships among its members organizations in order to help people who have had a stroke or are at risk for a stroke. | http://www.stroke-site.org/ |
| The Internet Stroke Center is a non-profit, educational service of the Stroke Center at Barness-Jewish Hospital, Washington University Medical Center and the Cerebrovascular Disease Section of the Department of Neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. It exists to advance understanding of stroke research and clinical care. Their goal is to provide current, professional, un-biased information about stroke. The information is obtained from published accounts, meeting presentations, internet searches and direct correspondence. | http://www.strokecenter.org/ |
| World Health Organization is the directing and coordination authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends. | http://www.who.int/topics/cerebrovascular |