stroke is one of the most common diseases among the elderly with high personal and societal costs. in recent years, robotic rehabilitation for stroke has become an active area of research for assistance, monitoring and qualifying the rehabilitation treatments. the key issue needed for improving rehabilitation system is that patient feedback should be taken into account by the robotic rehabilita...

[Purpose] Early admission to inpatient rehabilitation is critical for reducing post-stroke disability. Assessing admission timing and other trends in inpatient rehabilitation are essential for improving health outcomes. This study is the first to evaluate the timing of admission of stroke patients to inpatient rehabilitation in Turkey. [Subjects and Methods] We retrospectively analyzed acute st...

OBJECTIVE To assess the rehabilitation needs of stroke survivors in Chennai, India, after discharge from the hospital. DESIGN Mixed-methods research design. SETTING Home-based. PARTICIPANTS Stroke survivors (n=50; mean age ± SD, 58.9±10.5y) and primary caregivers of these stroke survivors (n=50; mean age ± SD, 43.1±11.8y) took part in the quantitative survey. A subsample of stroke survivo...

Stroke rehabilitation is a progressive, dynamic, goal-orientated process aimed at enabling a person with impairment to reach their optimal physical, cognitive, emotional, communicative, social and/or functional activity level. After a stroke, patients often continue to require rehabilitation for persistent deficits related to spasticity, upper and lower extremity dysfunction, shoulder and centr...

Purpose: The aim of this work was to survey the contemporary facilities of early post-stroke rehabilitation in Poland. Relevance: Growing costs of health care enforced managers to be looking for new organizational solutions of services which could enable as early as possible rehabilitation after disease onset. Early post-stroke rehabilitation consists of many elements of modern strategy of reha...

Based on insights from brain research in music, neurologic music therapy (NMT) has been established as a new model for music in therapy and medicine. Standardized clinical interventions are based on clusters of research evidence and established learning principles in motor, speech/language, and cognitive training. The research support for NMT in stroke rehabilitation has been growing rapidly ov...