Rehabilitation after stroke: 1--What is the potential?

After a year at home doing nothing a man of 66 was admitted to a rehabilitation centre for help with the many problems left by his stroke 18 months before. He had in fact spent most of the first six months in a specialist stroke rehabilitation unit; but in the second centre, between 18 and 24 months from the stroke, he recovered considerably and has continued to progress ever since. Now, five years after the stroke and still helped by having two week "booster" admissions every three months, this man who had appeared irrecoverably without speech is talking again.