How active are stroke patients in physiotherapy sessions and is this associated with stroke severity?

CONCLUSIONS: Patients with greater stroke severity participate in less active exercise in physiotherapy sessions than those with lesser stroke severity. Reasons for this disparity warrant further investigation.Implications for rehabilitationStroke patients with higher levels of severity engage in less active exercise during rehabilitation.A discrepancy exists between patients' planned physiotherapy session lengths and actual session lengths during stroke rehabilitation.Physiotherapists should be mindful in how to adapt their sessions (particularly with severe stroke patients) to maximise the amount of activity they undertake.Physiotherapists should be flexible in their delivery of rehabilitation to ensure that the length of patient sessions reflect patients' needs.PMID:33794718 | DOI:10.1080/09638288.2021.1907459
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Source Type: research