Reversing the Ruin: Rehabilitation, Recovery, and Restoration After Stroke.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose of review

Stroke is a common cause of disability in aging adults. A given individual's needs after stroke vary as a function of the stroke extent and location. The purpose of this review was to discuss recent clinical investigations addressing rehabilitation of an array of overlapping functional domains.

Recent findings

Research is ongoing in the domains of movement, cognition, attention, speech, language, swallowing, and mental health. To best assist patients' recovery, innovative research has sought to develop and evaluate behavioral approaches, identify and refine synergistic approaches that augment the response to behavioral therapy, and integrate technology where appropriate, particularly to introduce and titrate real-world complexity and improve the overall exp

SUBMITTER: Stockbridge MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9525934 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature