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Stretch, stroke, dying carotid artery tear, the consequences are terrible

Stretch, stroke, dying carotid artery tear, the consequences are terrible

4hw.com.cn: if you stretch, you will have a stroke. I believe most people don't believe it. However, this is a real event. What's going on? Let's look at the details.

A 28 year old man in the United States recently suffered a stroke after stretching and nearly died. Doctors found out that the cause was the rupture of the artery leading to the brain in the patient's neck. They said many people had been recruited, and even died in serious cases.

According to the daily mail of May 3, Josh & middot, 28; Hard lives in Guthrie, Oklahoma, and has a pair of children aged 5 and 1 with his wife. On March 14 this year, Josh felt uncomfortable sitting at home, so he stood up, stretched his waist, stretched his neck, and moved more than usual. Unexpectedly, the bone made a noise. At the same time, Josh felt that his left body began to numb and the road couldn't go straight.

Josh used to be a policeman and saw others have a stroke. He went to the mirror to check whether his face had signs of stroke. He didn't find his mouth watering, so he put an ice bag on his left arm, and then called his outgoing wife Rebecca. The latter was shopping with his mother-in-law and immediately informed Josh's father-in-law who lived nearby to visit him.

The father-in-law drove his son-in-law to the hospital quickly. At the gersley Charity Hospital, Josh could not move from the emergency bed to the CT machine by himself. Soon the doctor confirmed that Josh had a stroke. In that fatal action, he tore the vertebral artery, an important blood vessel to the brain. Fortunately, although the artery was torn, there was no massive hemorrhage in the brain, only one blood clot. Josh was given a drug called TPA (tissue plasminogen activator) to dissolve the thrombus.

Then Josh stayed in the intensive care unit for five days, recovered in the hospital for about a week and a half, and was allowed to leave the hospital and go home. The stroke did not affect his cognitive function, speech and swallowing function, but the sequelae were obvious, including still difficult to maintain balance, blurred vision in his left eye and frequent hiccups for about two weeks. Now Josh is recuperating at home. He can do some housework every day, take care of his 5-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son, and work for a short time.

Doctors say the type of stroke Josh experienced is fatal. If the vertebral artery tear affects the grass-roots artery, a major stroke may lead to a vegetative state of long-term coma or even death. Neurologist Kawakami Nakagawa said that there have been many cases of stroke caused by vertebral artery tear in young people aged 20 to 30, which has nothing to do with the daily health status of the patients. He called for the necessary attention to sudden neck pain, which may be a precursor to a stroke.