{"id":893,"date":"2017-06-16T08:36:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T14:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/?p=893"},"modified":"2017-06-07T08:37:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T14:37:58","slug":"understanding-a-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/understanding-a-stroke\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding a Stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><strong>Types of <span class=\"il\">strokes<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div>The type of <span class=\"il\">stroke<\/span> depends on its location in the brain and the severity of the <span class=\"il\">stroke<\/span> itself. There are two types of <span class=\"il\">stroke<\/span>: Ischemic <span class=\"il\">stroke<\/span> and hemorrhagic <span class=\"il\">stroke<\/span>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Ischemic <span class=\"il\">Stroke<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div>These <span class=\"il\">strokes<\/span> happen when a blood vessel the brain is blocked. Blockage of the blood vessel can happen for a variety of reasons, fatty deposits in arteries can cause blood clots to form or sometimes a blood clot formed in the heart due to an irregular heartbeat can travel to the brain.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><strong>Hemorrhagic <span class=\"il\">Stroke<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div>These <span class=\"il\">strokes<\/span> happen when a blood vessel is weak and there is a rupture. This causes the blood vessel to bleed into the brain. This can because of an aneurysm (ballooning of a weak blood vessel) or arteriovenous malformation (when the arteries are abnormally formed).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Types of strokes The type of stroke depends on its location in the brain and the severity of the stroke itself. There are two types of stroke: Ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke. Ischemic Stroke These strokes happen when a blood vessel the brain is blocked. Blockage of the blood vessel can happen for a variety [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897,"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions\/897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}