Stroke: Timing and rehabilitation critical to regain lost function

Pelvic bridge: Stand next to the patient, hold his knee and support his bottom as he tries to lift his hip off the floor. — SHAARI CHEMAT/The Star

Getting a stroke is no joke.

For every minute that a stroke patient goes untreated, he loses roughly two million neurons (i.e. nerve cells in the brain) that transmit information to other neurons, muscles and tissues throughout the body.