STROKE REHABILITATION
QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
What is rehabilitation? ANSW✅✅the action of restoring someone to health or normal life through
training and therapy after imprisonment, addiction, or illness.
what are the challenges in evidence- based stroke rehabilitation ANSW✅✅-the neurophysiology
underpinning stroke rehabilitation
-interventions tend to be complex and contain several interrelated components
-treatments might target several different problems from relieving very specific impairments to
improving activity and participation
what do high complex treatments consist of ANSW✅✅interventions that are provided by more
than one individual or by a single operator (therapist/nurse)
multidisciplinary team are the basis of stroke rehab
what can cause good rehab to occur ANSW✅✅high patient motivation and engagement
setting goals that replicate the rehab aim
what are the principles of rehabilitation ANSW✅✅Goal setting: establishment of specific,
measurable, and time-dependent recovery goals to guide management.
• High-intensity practice: increased therapy or intervention.
• Multidisciplinary team care: a team of medical, nursing, therapy, and social-work staff who provide
rehabilitation input and coordinate their work with regular meetings.
, • Task-specific training: rehabilitation approaches where specific functional tasks are practised
repeatedly
what are the complex rehabilitation interventions ANSW✅✅• Cognitive rehabilitation
interventions: interventions addressing cognitive impairments (usually provided by occupational
therapists or clinical psychologists).
• Early supported discharge service: service that aims to allow for an early hospital discharge and for
the provision of multidisciplinary rehabilitation at home.
• Integrated-care pathways: formal documented care plan to promote coordinated and effi cient
interdisciplinary patient care.
• Multidisciplinary stroke unit: hospital ward in which patients with stroke are looked after by a
specialist multidisciplinary stroke team who coordinate their work through regular meetings.
• Outpatient rehabilitation service: rehabilitation service provided through a clinic, day hospital, or
in patients' homes to patients who live at home.
• Occupational therapy interventions: interventions provided by occupational therapists (usually
aimed at improving activities of daily living, occupation, and leisure activity).
• Physiotherapy interventions: interventions provided by physiotherapists (usually aimed at balance,
gait, and movement).
• Interventions for speech and language therapy: interventions provided by speech and language
therapists (usually aimed at improving language, communication, or swallowing abilities).
• Services with stroke liaison workers: a multifaceted service, which is usually provided by a health-
care or social-care worker typically including more than one of social support, education, and
information provision and liaison with other services.
• Therapy-based rehabilitation service: service provided by physiotherapists, occupational
therapists, or multidisciplinary team containing those disciplines.
QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
What is rehabilitation? ANSW✅✅the action of restoring someone to health or normal life through
training and therapy after imprisonment, addiction, or illness.
what are the challenges in evidence- based stroke rehabilitation ANSW✅✅-the neurophysiology
underpinning stroke rehabilitation
-interventions tend to be complex and contain several interrelated components
-treatments might target several different problems from relieving very specific impairments to
improving activity and participation
what do high complex treatments consist of ANSW✅✅interventions that are provided by more
than one individual or by a single operator (therapist/nurse)
multidisciplinary team are the basis of stroke rehab
what can cause good rehab to occur ANSW✅✅high patient motivation and engagement
setting goals that replicate the rehab aim
what are the principles of rehabilitation ANSW✅✅Goal setting: establishment of specific,
measurable, and time-dependent recovery goals to guide management.
• High-intensity practice: increased therapy or intervention.
• Multidisciplinary team care: a team of medical, nursing, therapy, and social-work staff who provide
rehabilitation input and coordinate their work with regular meetings.
, • Task-specific training: rehabilitation approaches where specific functional tasks are practised
repeatedly
what are the complex rehabilitation interventions ANSW✅✅• Cognitive rehabilitation
interventions: interventions addressing cognitive impairments (usually provided by occupational
therapists or clinical psychologists).
• Early supported discharge service: service that aims to allow for an early hospital discharge and for
the provision of multidisciplinary rehabilitation at home.
• Integrated-care pathways: formal documented care plan to promote coordinated and effi cient
interdisciplinary patient care.
• Multidisciplinary stroke unit: hospital ward in which patients with stroke are looked after by a
specialist multidisciplinary stroke team who coordinate their work through regular meetings.
• Outpatient rehabilitation service: rehabilitation service provided through a clinic, day hospital, or
in patients' homes to patients who live at home.
• Occupational therapy interventions: interventions provided by occupational therapists (usually
aimed at improving activities of daily living, occupation, and leisure activity).
• Physiotherapy interventions: interventions provided by physiotherapists (usually aimed at balance,
gait, and movement).
• Interventions for speech and language therapy: interventions provided by speech and language
therapists (usually aimed at improving language, communication, or swallowing abilities).
• Services with stroke liaison workers: a multifaceted service, which is usually provided by a health-
care or social-care worker typically including more than one of social support, education, and
information provision and liaison with other services.
• Therapy-based rehabilitation service: service provided by physiotherapists, occupational
therapists, or multidisciplinary team containing those disciplines.
