Cognitive impairments and depression have considerable impacts on rehabilitation, quality of life and mortality after stroke. The understanding of cognitive and mood impairments in old and, in particular, very old stroke patients is not sufficient. The knowledge of the frequency of neglect, its relation to other cognitive impairments is meager, in the elderly and late after stroke despite its k...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We wished to examine the effectiveness of an early hospital discharge and home-based rehabilitation scheme for patients with acute stroke. METHODS This was a randomized, controlled trial comparing early hospital discharge and home-based rehabilitation with usual inpatient rehabilitation and follow-up care. The trial was carried out in 2 affiliated teaching hospitals in ...

Background: Stroke survivors face various problems after discharge from rehabilitation hospitals. This study aimed to clarify the post-discharge experiences of male stroke with attention deficits, a form higher brain dysfunction.

background: post-stroke dysphagia is common and is associated with the development of pneumonia. to investigate the effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rtms) combined with traditional dysphagia therapy (tdt) on swallowing function in patients with post-stroke dysphagia. methods: in this single-subject study, four patients with dysphagia post-stroke included. the patients re...

The young stroke population represents a significant rehabilitation challenge. When compared to older stroke patients, young patients are more often employed, caring for dependants, and rely ing on workrelated income. Although much less common than in older patients, stroke in young adults has an annual incidence rate from 6 to 20 per 100,000 individuals annually (Leys et al. 2002). For every 5...

BackgroundAfter suffering from a stroke, serious long-term disability occurs and physiotherapy is one part of rehabilitation for stroke survivors that plays significant role in improving functional recovery, mobility has positive impact on outcome.ObjectiveTo identify functioning outcomes after rehabilitation.MethodologyBy using both retrospective cross-sectional study designs, 71 cases were id...

This study was aimed at understanding the current physical and occupational therapy practices in stroke rehabilitation in the Midwest. The insights gained from this pilot study will be used in a future study aimed at understanding stroke rehabilitation practices across the nation. Researchers and clinicians in the field of stroke rehabilitation were interviewed, and past studies in the literatu...

[Purpose] The study aimed to characterize patients treated by rehabilitation section after establishment of an acute stroke unit. [Subjects and Methods] Medical consultation records of individuals with ischemic stroke were studied retrospectively, excluding individuals with hemorrhagic stroke, thrombolysis, previous Modified Rankin Scale ≥ 1, prior stroke, structural bone deformities, associate...

BACKGROUND Stroke complications can occur not only in the acute ward but also during the subsequent rehabilitation period. However, existing studies have not adequately addressed the incidence of various complications among stroke in patients undergoing rehabilitation using a longitudinal method. We aimed to investigate the longitudinal impact of age on complication rates in patients undergoing...