Contemporary, postpandemic description of UK occupational therapy and physiotherapy practice to rehabilitate the upper limb after stroke: the SUPPLES 2 online survey.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES : To provide a contemporary, postpandemic description of UK occupational therapy and physiotherapy practice to rehabilitate the upper limb after stroke. SETTING : A national online survey, first undertaken in 2018 (prepandemic), was readministered to describe postpandemic practice.

Participants

The survey was distributed to UK-based occupational therapists and physiotherapists working with people after stroke, via professional and social networks.

Primary measures

Shaped by the Template for Intervention Description and Replication Checklist, the survey collected and subsequently analysed the content, frequency and duration of upper limb rehabilitation after stroke.

Results

 A total of 122 occupational therapists (n=42) and physiotherapists (n=80) currently w

SUBMITTER: Jarvis KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12458861 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature