{"id":89793,"date":"2019-04-21T17:22:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T00:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/small-half-watch-worn-on-leg-could-transform-recovery-from-stroke"},"modified":"2019-04-21T17:22:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T00:22:22","slug":"small-half-watch-worn-on-leg-could-transform-recovery-from-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/small-half-watch-worn-on-leg-could-transform-recovery-from-stroke","title":{"rendered":"Small \u2018half-watch\u2019 worn on leg could transform recovery from stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/small-half-watch-worn-on-leg-could-transform-recovery-from-stroke.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Patients <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2019\/04\/20\/almost-one-ten-heart-attacks-strokes-could-prevented-high-risk\/\">recovering from a stroke<\/a> can slash their risk of blood clots by wearing a small \u201chalf wrist-watch\u201d around their leg, a trial has shown.<\/p>\n<p>A study at Royal Stoke University Hospital found the geko device could reduces the risk of clots compared to standard treatment, is comfortable to wear and could save the NHS cash.<\/p>\n<p>Approved for use on the NHS for other conditions, the geko is a battery-powered, disposable, device designed to increase blood flow in the deep veins of the legs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2019\/04\/21\/small-half-watch-worn-leg-could-transform-recovery-stroke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patients recovering from a stroke can slash their risk of blood clots by wearing a small \u201chalf wrist-watch\u201d around their leg, a trial has shown. A study at Royal Stoke University Hospital found the geko device could reduces the risk of clots compared to standard treatment, is comfortable to wear and could save the NHS [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}