Treatment components for upper limb rehabilitation after stroke: a survey of UK national practice.

Conclusion: From the treatment components described, the highest number of treatment components was listed for the moderately impaired patient. The treatment components used by the units surveyed are quite consistent with the 2012 Clinical Guidelines for Stroke. Implications for Rehabilitation The survey captured five substantive categories of treatment that describe most active patient participation, moderately active patient participation, non-active patient participation, assistive technology and other. Overall, the treatment components described by the units are quite consistent with the 2012 UK Clinical Guidelines for Stroke. Assistive technologies were not widely used in the units surveyed but when used constraint-induced movement therapy was most commonly used with mildly impaired patients and electrical stimulation was most common with moderately and severely impaired patients. PMID: 23962194 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research