Stroke
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According to the Stroke Association, every day in May, 240 people in the UK will wake up to the life-changing impact of a stroke. This is a shocking statistic and,...
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FG was a fit and healthy mother of four aged 26 who had given birth to her fourth child. Sharon Allison, partner and head of medical negligence at Ashtons Legal,...
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A stroke is a severe, life-threatening medical event triggered by the interruption of blood flow to a part of the brain. Disruption of this vital supply can have devastating consequences,...
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Ashtons Rehabilitation Coordinator has secured a Charitable Grant from The Hospital Saturday Fund Charity to support a client’s Stroke Physiotherapy Rehabilitation. At Ashtons, the Client Rehabilitation Service (CRS) is a...
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Ms K, a 29-year-old woman at the time of her injury, attended A&E after her mum noticed that she was suffering from facial drooping, slurred speech and right-side weakness. She...
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“I had the thrombectomy on Sunday morning, the physio team were working on me on Monday morning and I walked out of the hospital on Monday afternoon. It was incredible,...
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After a gruelling four-day trial in the Royal Courts of Justice, Mr Justice Ritchie has found that, on the balance of probabilities, the stroke that Mrs P suffered in September...
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May is Stroke Awareness Month. Supported by The Stroke Association, this is an opportunity to highlight the serious nature and high rates of stroke in the UK, to raise awareness...
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Heather Planner, 87, of Buckinghamshire, died from a stroke after being accidentally given another patient’s medication. Mrs Planner had been prescribed apixaban, a blood-thinning medicine. However when she went to...
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October 29 is World Stroke Day – a campaign which aims to raise awareness of strokes in order to reduce the number of people who suffer as a result of...
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Tom Cook, a consultant solicitor within the medical negligence team at Ashtons Legal, has obtained in excess of £1 million for a man who suffered a stroke that left him...
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