stroke is going to do cause paralysis so hemorrhage absolutely bleeding in the brain is in addition to a blood clot going up into the brain and blocking off the blood flow a blood vessel rupturing and causing hemorrhage is a stroke so you can start to get the feeling from the responses that stroke is not totally straightforward and it is complicated so the definition that I like is that stroke is the brain injury that occurs when there is an abrupt disruption of the blood flow to the brain so that abrupt disruption of the blood flow to