The neurorehabilitation program must be customized to practice those skills impaired due to the stroke, such as weakness, lack of coordination, problems walking, loss of sensation, problems with hand grasp, visual loss, or trouble speaking or understanding. Research shows the most important element in any neurorehabilitation program is carefully directed, well-focused, repetitive practice-the same kind of practice used by all people when they learn a new skill, such as playing the piano or pitching a baseball. Equally important in rehabilitation is to protect the individual from developing new medical problems, including pneumonia, urinary tract infections, injury due to fall, or a clot formation in large veins. Rehabilitation helps someone who has had a stroke relearn skills that are suddenly lost when part of the brain is damaged. Even though rehabilitation doesn’t reverse brain damage, it can substantially help a stroke survivor achieve the best long-term outcome. The brain has an intrinsic ability to rewire its circuits after a stroke, which leads to some degree of improved function over months to years. The disability that a person with stroke experiences and the rehabilitation that is needed depends on the size of the brain injury and the particular brain circuits that are damaged. The goals of rehabilitation are to optimize how the person functions after a stroke and the level of independence, and to achieve the best possible quality of life.Īdvances in emergency stroke treatment can limit damage to the brain, which occurs either from bleeding into and around the brain (hemorrhagic stroke) or from lack of blood flow to a region where nerve cells are robbed of vital supplies of oxygen and nutrients and subsequently die (ischemic stroke). In the United States, about 800,000 people each year suffer a stroke and approximately two-thirds of these individuals survive and require rehabilitation. Stroke is a medical emergency that requires immediate attention. How can someone help prevent another stroke? What is the role of technologies in stroke rehabilitation? Where can a stroke patient get rehabilitation? When can a stroke patient begin rehabilitation? What medical professionals specialize in post-stroke rehabilitation? What disabilities can result from a stroke? What factors can affect the outcome of stroke rehabilitation?
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