These brain attacks, as the experts will tell you, can happen to anyone.
Gray cells die, affecting functions controlled by the damaged area.
In serious cases, survivors suffer severe speech difficulties or paralysis. So stroke patients will be heartened to learn that they can regain the use of their limbs even years after an attack. The program puts stroke victims through six hours of exercise with the paralyzed arm daily while the normal limb is restrained. Amazingly, movement returns after just two weeks. Patients who underwent the novel therapy devised by doctors at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, were able to move arms and even legs.