
Innovations in Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation, An Issue of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America
- 1st Edition, Volume 35-2 - March 25, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Joel Stein, Joan Stilling
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 1 1 7 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 1 1 8 - 9
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Request a sales quoteIn this issue of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics, guest editors Drs. Joel Stein and Joan Stilling bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Innovations in Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation. Top experts in the field discuss motor rehabilitation therapies which can be delivered across the acute, subacute, and chronic post-stroke stages; the secondary sequalae of stroke associated with impaired functional outcomes, and much more, helping readers understand the complexities of current stroke rehabilitation techniques and delivery of care.
- Contains 15 relevant, practice-oriented topics including mechanisms of motor recovery post-stroke; rehabilitation level of care determination and transitions in care; post-stroke exercise training: intensity, dosing, and timing of therapy; technological advances in stroke rehabilitation: virtual reality and robotics; and more.
- Provides in-depth clinical reviews on innovations in stroke recovery and rehabilitation, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
- Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Foreword
- Preface
- Top-Down and Bottom-Up Mechanisms of Motor Recovery Poststroke
- Key points
- Introduction
- What is motor recovery?
- Top-down mechanisms
- Bottom-up mechanisms
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Future directions
- Author disclosures
- Biomarkers of Motor Outcomes After Stroke
- Key points
- Introduction
- Nature of the problem
- Current evidence—upper limb
- Current evidence—lower limb
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Motor Learning Following Stroke: Mechanisms of Learning and Techniques to Augment Neuroplasticity
- Key points
- Introduction
- Definitions of motor learning and skill acquisition
- Considering theories of motor control and motor learning in stroke rehabilitation
- Neuroplasticity and motor learning
- Techniques to augment motor learning and neuroplasticity
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Health Care Disparities in Stroke Rehabilitation
- Key points
- Introduction
- Review of stroke disparities literature
- Disparities in stroke-related risk factors
- Disparities in the acute stroke setting: stroke type, treatment, and functional status
- Disparities in rehabilitative stroke care: acute/subacute rehabilitation, community-based rehabilitative care, and functional outcomes
- Language barriers
- Disparities in functional outcomes for survivors of stroke
- Interventions focused on rehabilitative stroke disparities
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Sources of funding
- Disclosure
- Telerehabilitation Following Stroke
- Key points
- Stroke remains a major cause of human disability
- High doses of rehabilitation therapy improve outcomes after stroke
- Most patients do not receive high doses of rehabilitation therapy after stroke
- Telehealth can overcome barriers to providing high rehabilitation doses
- A telerehabilitation approach to treating upper extremity motor deficits after stroke
- The future of telerehabilitation
- Disclosure
- Funding
- Remote Ischemic Conditioning in Stroke Recovery
- Key points
- Introduction
- The mechanism of remote ischemic conditioning
- How to perform remote ischemic conditioning? Practical considerations
- Is remote ischemic conditioning effective in stroke recovery?
- Is remote ischemic conditioning safe?
- Can remote ischemic conditioning be combined with other stroke recovery strategies?
- Unsolved questions and future directions
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Funding
- Post Stroke Exercise Training: Intensity, Dosage, and Timing of Therapy
- Key points
- Introduction
- Intensity of therapy post stroke
- Variability in treatment protocols
- Importance of intensity of therapy post stroke
- Therapeutic options
- Practical challenges with therapy intensity
- Clinical pearls for intensity
- Timing of therapy
- Pre-clinical studies
- Clinical association between early admission to rehabilitation units and improved functional outcomes
- More intensive therapy in the acute phase
- Intensive therapy in the subacute phase
- Intensive therapy in the chronic phase
- Clinical pearls for timing
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Funding
- Integrating Cardiac Rehabilitation in Stroke Recovery
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Neurostimulation After Stroke
- Key points
- Introduction
- Noninvasive brain stimulation
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Technological Advances in Stroke Rehabilitation: Robotics and Virtual Reality
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Future prospects
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Funding
- Disclosure
- Spasticity Treatment Beyond Botulinum Toxins
- Key points
- Introduction
- Cryoneurolysis
- Side effects
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- A Review of Poststroke Aphasia Recovery and Treatment Options
- Key points
- Introduction
- Aphasia recovery
- Therapeutic options
- Recommendations for research
- Discussion and summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Dysphagia and Enteral Feeding After Stroke in the Rehabilitation Setting
- Key points
- Introduction, background, and definitions
- Discussion
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Innovations in Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation: Poststroke Pain
- Key points
- Introduction
- Poststroke Pain Syndromes
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Pathophysiology, Assessment, and Management of Post-Stroke Cognitive Impairment, Depression, and Fatigue
- Key points
- Introduction
- Post-stroke cognitive impairment
- Observation/assessment/evaluation
- Post-stroke depression
- Observation/assessment/evaluation
- Therapeutic options
- Post-stroke fatigue
- Summary and future directions
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 35-2
- Published: March 25, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443131172
- eBook ISBN: 9780443131189
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Joel Stein
Affiliations and expertise
Physiatrist-in-Chief, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Simon Baruch Professor, Department of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine