Word: rehab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Neck. After a brain artery shutdown, neurologists and neurosurgeons can do little but provide guide lines for rehab specialists. Prevention of strokes is still a vision of the future. But any measures that slow down atherosclerosis will prevent almost as many strokes as coronary attacks. Meanwhile, neurologists are working with surgeons to see what can be done about narrowed arteries in the neck, where the surgeon can get at them. From 5% to 20% of strokes (doctors differ widely about the proportion) occur not in the brain but in the carotid arteries in the neck. Houston's Dr. Michael...