Doctors usually recommend several measures for stroke survivors, including exercising that require a walker or a cane, in addition to a leg crutch that maintains the body’s balance and stability during the walking retraining.
A team including researchers from Spain’s Universidad de Alcalá (UAH), New Jersey City University, and the American University of Cairo (AUH), discovered that ancient Egyptians had applied similar measures to rehabilitate stroke patients. The discovery involved an ancient Egyptian mummy from the 25th Dynasty, unearthed by the Spanish-Egyptian mission working at the Dra Abu el-Naga necropolis located on the West Bank of the Nile, in Luxor (southern Egypt).
