Sensory Deficits

Tips from survivors: “Even when sensation was reduced, touching and moving the area helped my brain reconnect with it.”

Reduced or altered ability to feel sensations such as touch, temperature, pain, or pressure.

Numbness, tingling, decreased sensitivity, or difficulty detecting heat, cold, or pain in parts of the body.

Stroke damages the brain’s sensory pathways that carry information from the body to the brain.

Sensory retraining, physical and occupational therapy, protecting affected areas from injury, and regular stimulation of the affected limb.

Very common after stroke, especially when sensory regions of the brain are affected.

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