Stroke results in impairment of motor, cognitive and sensory/perceptual functions. As such, activities of daily living (ADL) after stroke can be affected. These affectations can persist for a long time depending on the extent of the affectation in the brain and rehabilitation. In fact, stroke has lately been recognized as a long term condition. Thus, stroke rehabilitation requires intensive tim...

Recent findings on motor lateralization have revealed consistent differences in the control strategies of the dominant and nondominant hemisphere/limb systems that could have implications for hemiplegic stroke patients. Studies in stroke patients have demonstrated deficiencies in the ipsilesional arm that reflect these distinctions; patients with right-hemisphere damage tend to show deficits in...

OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacy of novel interactive, motion capture-rehabilitation software to usual care stroke rehabilitation on physical function. DESIGN Randomized controlled clinical trial. SETTING Two subacute hospital rehabilitation units in Australia. PARTICIPANTS In all, 73 people less than six months after stroke with reduced mobility and clinician determined capacity to impr...

The purpose of this study was to: 1) examine the variation in organizational structure within rehabilitation bed-service units (RBU) in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), and 2) evaluate the effects of RBU and parent hospital structure on stroke rehabilitation outcomes. Two VHA-wide surveys of acute and rehabilitation services for stroke were linked with 2 y of VHA rehabilitation outcome...

In my 29-year career as a physical therapist, I have always believed stroke rehabilitation was a good thing and it should be provided to most everyone. However, evidence-based practice requires us to know what works and who benefits and to know if stroke rehabilitation is cost-effective. Currently, there is tremendous variability in the structure and process of rehabilitation services in Depart...

state that the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care is unable to adequately assess rehabilitation efficiency and that program administrators have little incentive to improve access to stroke rehabilitation programs. Although these observations may be perceived as hurtful to some program administrators, they are accurate and merit further discussion. The authors propose a vision for transformat...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The purpose of this research was to describe the clinical course of children's functioning (depression, behavioral problems, and health status) during the first year after parental stroke and to determine which patient-, spouse-, or child-related factors at the start of inpatient rehabilitation can predict children's functioning after parental stroke at 1-year poststroke....

OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of the individualized rehabilitation programs on the recovery of swallowing during acute stroke. METHODS A total of 88 stroke patients with dysphagia (within 2 weeks of acute stroke) were enrolled and classified into the experimental and control groups (n=44). The control group was treated with conventional rehabilitation program, while a multidisciplinary reh...

We propose to extend the current focus of BCI-based stroke rehabilitation beyond sensorimotor-rhythms to also include associative brain areas. In particular, we argue that neurofeedback training of brain rhythms that signal a state-of-mind beneficial for motorlearning is likely to enhance post-stroke motor rehabilitation. We propose an adaptive neurofeedback paradigm for this purpose and demons...