ABSTRACT
Stroke patients are suspected of having overindulged in the good things in life; they are enjoined that, from on, they need to manage the risk factors in their lives. If they are hemiplegic, their distorted posture and "crooke d" mouth represent a deviation from the "proper" body image. Rehabilitation medicine gives a neurologist access to certain aspects of the Cerebrovascular accidents (CVA) that ordinarily escape our attention during more acute treatment. A CVA is caused by either a stoppage in the blood supply or bleeding in one or several brain areas. It offers a unique research opportunity for our understanding of the relationships between the physical body, body image and identity. The representation of oneself and of one's own body as a coherent and stable unit has been the focus of numerous neuroscientific studies devoted to the questions of the self, self-consciousness or the first-person perspective.
