Approaches to Stroke Rehabilitation

The term "stroke rehabilitation" is an encompassing term that refers to recovery efforts for any deficits resulting from a stroke. However, there are really two categories of difficulties that can follow stroke, namely:

• Deficits directly caused by the stroke such as motor deficits, mobility, sensory, visual and perceptual, speech/language, and the impact they cause on activities of daily living.
• Deficits that are complications of the stroke, such as cardiovascular complications, neuromuscular deconditioning, pressure sores, bladder and bowel dysfunction, shoulder pain, shoulder subluxation, spasticity, falling, dysphagia, depression, fatigue, sleep apnea, and emotional disturbances.