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Focusing on Different Therapeutic Approaches in People with Stroke Rehabilitation: A Scoping Review of Literature

Saurabh kumar, Anand Kumar Singh, Sapna Dhiman

Abstract


Background: Stroke is one of the main sources of death and incapacity in both the developing and developed countries of the world. Stroke recovery is a sorted-out undertaking to help patients to boost all open doors for coming back to a dynamic way of life. There are several physiotherapy approaches for the stroke rehabilitation. Some physiotherapist’s treatment based on a single approach, whereas some used a mixture of components from several different approaches. Aim: This paper is a report of an audit led to give a proof in the literature, on the effect of different therapeutic approaches in the management of stroke survivors. Data Sources: A range of databases was searched to identify papers addressing physiotherapeutic    approaches in stroke rehabilitation, including scholar, ICMR data base, Cochrane Library of systematic reviews and various online Journals of Stroke and Physiotherapy. The selected papers were surveyed and based on their findings a review was made. Results: By reviewing the literature it is found that there are different physiotherapy approaches used in stroke rehabilitation which are effective or beneficiary for functional outcome and overall health related quality of life in stroke survivors. Conclusion: This study concluded that different physiotherapy approaches are effective in stroke rehabilitation. But still the physiotherapists need to embrace the responsibility of using evidence-based or scientifically acceptable methods of intervention and objective measurements of outcome.

 

Keywords: Stroke, disability, rehabilitation, physiotherapy, quality of life

 

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Saurabh Kumar, Anand Kumar Singh, Sapna Dhiman. Focusing on Different Therapeutic Approaches in People with Stroke Rehabilitation: A Scoping Review of Literature. Research and Reviews: Journal of Neuroscience. 2018; 8(1):
21–27p.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37591/rrjon.v8i1.261

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