Long-term pain conditions after a stroke

Stroke rehabilitation: long-term rehabilitation after stroke.

Many stroke survivors, despite improvements in mortality and morbidity, remain dependent on others for everyday activities. People with stroke need access to effective specialist multidisciplinary rehabilitation services that are organised and integrated within the whole system of health and social care. They also commonly come under the care of generalists in various clinical contexts, includi...

Self-reported long-term needs after stroke.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Development of interventions to manage patients with stroke after discharge from the hospital requires estimates of need. This study estimates the prevalence of self-reported need in community-dwelling stroke survivors across the United Kingdom. METHODS We conducted a survey of stroke survivors 1 to 5 years poststroke recruited through Medical Research Council General P...

Long-term outcome after stroke: a disability-orientated approach.

Dementia after stroke is a predictor of long-term survival.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The aim of this study was to determine whether dementia after stroke adversely influences long-term survival. METHODS Subjects were 251 patients > or = 60 years of age with ischemic stroke who were given neurological, neuropsychological, and functional examinations 3 months after hospitalization and were followed up prospectively. Using criteria modified from the Diagno...

Long-term Prednisolone in Post-stroke Complex Regional Pain Syndrome.

BACKGROUND There is no study on the long-term use of prednisolone in post-stroke complex regional pain syndrome-1 (CRPS1). OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy and safety of long-term low dose prednisolone in post-stroke CRPS-I. STUDY DESIGN Open-labeled randomized controlled trial. SETTING Tertiary care teaching institute. METHODS Seventy-seven out of 396 (19.4%) patients with stroke had...