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Can Exercise Prevent Severe Stroke?
Study shows that people who were physically active before having a stroke had less severe symptoms and better long-term outcomes when compared to previously inactive people who had strokes.
Study shows that people who were physically active before having a stroke had less severe symptoms and better long-term outcomes when compared to previously inactive people who had strokes.
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Symptoms
If you have symptoms of a stroke, seek emergency medical care. General symptoms of a stroke include sudden onset of:
- Numbness, weakness, or paralysis of the face, arm, or leg, typically on one side of the body.
- Trouble seeing in one or both eyes, such as dimness, blurring, double vision, or loss of vision.
- Confusion, trouble understanding.
- Slurred or garbled speech.
- Trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination.
- Severe headache.
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