Rehabilitation for improving automobile driving after stroke

Rehabilitation for improving automobile driving after stroke.

BACKGROUND Interventions to improve driving ability after stroke, including driving simulation and retraining visual skills, have limited evaluation of their effectiveness to guide policy and practice. OBJECTIVES To determine whether any intervention, with the specific aim of maximising driving skills, improves the driving performance of people after stroke. SEARCH METHODS We searched the C...

[Fitness for automobile driving after inhalation narcosis].

Improving Stroke Rehabilitation

Background and Purpose: Assessment of stroke rehabilitation is complicated by the heterogeneity of patients and settings and by difficulties in disentangling effects of organization from effects of types and amounts of treatment input. Methods: A prospective controlled study was undertaken in 245 stroke patients stratified into three groups according to prognosis and managed on a stroke rehabil...

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...

Possibilities for rehabilitation after stroke.

The patient's own attitude, activity and social interaction influence functional outcome and quality of life after stroke. Rehabilitation of stroke patients should start as soon as the patient is in a medically stable condition. The concept of early rehabilitation should be provided by an interdisciplinary team, preferably in stroke units. The key of successful rehabilitation is teamwork of the...