Rehabilitation of Paralysis Due to Apoplexy

"Wind stroke, a term used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), is a kind of acute cerebrovascular disease marked by sudden coma accompanied by hemiplegia, distortion of the face, dysphasia or sudden hemiplegia without fainting. Since its occurence is sudden, involving rapid changes, and violent in development, similar to the way the wind blows in nature, so it is called wind stroke in TCM.

Wind stroke is a disease due to disturbance of the blood circulation in the brain. Usually wind stroke is divided into two categories according to the cause, pathogenesis and manifestations. The first category is called hemorrhagic wind stroke or hemmorrhagic cerebrovascular disease, including cerebral hemorrhage and subarachnoid hemorrhage. The second category is called ischemic wind stroke or ischemic cerebrovascular disease, including temporal cerebral ischemic seizure and cerebral infarction (including cerebral thrombosis and cerebral embolism)."