Stroke Rehab
Stroke rehabilitation is a program of different therapies designed to help you relearn skills lost aftera stroke. Rehabilitation methods can depend on the parts of your brain affected by the stroke. Rehabilitation can help with movement, speech, strength and daily living skills. Stroke rehabilitation can help you regain independence and improve your quality of life.
Regain language skills
- Recovery lost language skills
- Regaining independence
- Improving quality of life
- Minimizing limitations in activities of daily living (ADLs)
- Promoting functional improvement and neurological recovery
- Restoring function as close to prestroke levels as possible
There’s a wide range of complications from stroke. There also is a wide range in how well each person recovers afterward. Researchers have found that people who participate in a focused stroke rehabilitation perform better than most people who don’t have stroke rehabilitation. Therefore, stroke rehabilitation is recommended for all people affected by stroke.
What's involved in stroke rehabilitation?
There are many approaches to helping people recover from stroke. But overall, rehabilitation is centered around specifically focused and repetitive actions. This involves practicing the same thing over and over again. Your rehabilitation plan will depend on the part of the body or type of ability affected by your stroke.