Trusted channels for education, exercise, and encouragement after stroke.
YouTube channels and video libraries for education, recovery tips, communication support, exercise, and survivor stories after stroke
This page contains links to YouTube channels and video resources that provide information, education, resources, and practical tips after stroke. Some channels are led by rehabilitation professionals, some are from major stroke nonprofits, and others share survivor stories, expert conversations, or aphasia-friendly education. These videos can be helpful for learning and encouragement, but they should not replace individualized advice from a physician, therapist, speech-language pathologist, or other qualified healthcare professional.
Stroke recovery is different for every person. A video that is appropriate for one survivor may be too difficult, too easy, or unsafe for another. Stop an activity and seek guidance if it causes chest pain, severe shortness of breath, dizziness, a fall or near-fall, new neurological symptoms, unusual pain, or a significant increase in fatigue. Call 911 for new or sudden stroke warning signs such as face drooping, arm weakness, speech difficulty, sudden vision changes, severe imbalance, confusion, or sudden severe headache.
The video resources linked on this page are provided for general education and support. Inclusion does not mean that Stroke Awareness Oregon endorses every video, product, treatment approach, or statement made by the linked organization or creator. Always consult your healthcare or rehabilitation team before starting new exercises, changing medications, using equipment, or making medical decisions.
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by Jake Sheaffer
“I once threw a canister of my supplement powder at the wall and dented it. That’s something I can’t imagine ever doing before my stroke, but it’s just another part of my recovery to work on.”
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On an early October weekend in 2019, Alesha Goodman and her longtime boyfriend Drew hiked over 50 miles of rugged desert landscape in the Ochoco National Forest in Central Oregon. They were on a nine-day hunting trip they’d been planning for months. While Drew streaked up the steep slopes of sagebrush and loose rock, Alesha tarried behind breathing heavily, fighting the searing pain radiating from the base of her skull. An active thirty-four-year-old who frequented local gyms, walked her dog daily, and hiked on weekends, Alesha never suspected the severe neck pain and nausea she’d had for the past week and a half were signs of an impending stroke. And not just one stroke, but two. Two potentially fatal strokes that would occur within an hour of each other the day after she returned from the Ochocos.
An only child, Alesha was close to her parents and her grandmother who lived on her parents’ property later in life. As a kid, she delivered newspapers in her Bend, OR neighborhood, and in her spare time, she wrote children’s books for fun and read voraciously, prompting close friends to refer to her as a “living encyclopedia of odd information.”
On the Monday morning after she got home, Alesha sat in traffic at a parkway off -ramp, still in discomfort from the neck pain and the nausea. She had new symptoms, too, dizziness and feeling faint. Regardless of the pain, she readied herself for work, but she had an uneasy feeling about her job.
Over the weekend, Alesha had received multiple text messages from her employer, a jewelry company in Central Oregon, about an issue with her company email and password, but with no cell reception, she couldn’t respond to her manager’s concerns. After searching through Alesha’s desk for her email password and not finding it, but instead finding an important legal document she’d already dealt with but had not yet disclosed to her boss, the company hired a specialist to get around the digital safeguards. That day, Alesha was let go from her position.
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