More than half of patients report having pain several months after stroke, and this group has a significantly elevated risk of death at 1 year. Investigators conducted a registry-based cohort study of ...

For many stroke survivors, recovery is derailed by painful muscle stiffness and involuntary spasms that limit movement, ...

"Some types of pain are due to the mechanical changes that happen in the body after a stroke, and some are due to nerve irritability from the stroke itself," said Dr. Richard Harvey, a professor of ...

Adults hospitalized for ischemic stroke who started gabapentin within 30 days of discharge often received a gabapentin prescription for at least a year, an analysis of Medicare claims showed. Among ...

Despite its impact on everyday life, research suggests post-stroke pain is often underdiagnosed and not well managed. Persistent shoulder pain affects roughly 20% of stroke survivors as many as four ...