Stroke rehabilitation

Author(s): McDowell, Fletcher

Journal/Book: Neurologic Clinics. 1987; 5: 601-630.

Abstract: Provides an overview of stroke rehabilitation covering patient management in the acute, subacute, and chronic phases of poststroke treatment. Cognitive, behavioral, and functional assessment in the subacute poststroke phase is discussed, neuropsychiatric problems occurring during this phase are identified, and cognitive deficits and perceptual deficits encountered during occupational therapy are described. Speech, recreational, and music therapy and social support services are also considered.

Note: rehabilitation; stroke patients

Keyword(s): Cerebrovascular accidents; rehabilitation

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