After a stroke, your body will need some time to recover and heal. Rehabilitation helps you to make the best stroke recovery possible. An also re-learn skills that were influenced by a stroke for everyday life. Medical experts carry out assessments and with you, they set goals for your recovery plan.
You will be assessed in different areas after stroke, such as:
- Swallowing test
- Mobility assessment
- Continence assessment
- Communication and cognitive assessments
- Nutritional status and hydration
Stroke experts
The team in your hospital will include a number of different healthcare professionals. Which all have specialist training and hands-on experience with stroke. You may also hear them called a multidisciplinary team.
The multidisciplinary team can include various experts such as:
- Doctors.
- Nurses, clinical nurse specialists, and healthcare assistants.
- Physiotherapists.
- Speech and language therapists.
- Dietitians.
- Occupational therapists.
- Ophthalmologists.
- Clinical psychologists.
- Rehabilitation assistants.
- Social workers.
- Pharmacists.
Starting rehabilitation therapy
While in hospital you will have daily sessions with different therapists. It will probably involve therapies of the following aspects:
- Setting realistic goals. Those goals are then broken down into small and manageable steps.
- Various exercises and activities to help you re-learn skills lost after a stroke.
- Being shown new and different ways of doing everyday things. Things such as dressing with one arm only instead of two.
Stroke recovery with Motus Health
Motus Health is a digital healthcare startup that is developing a mobile app for the recovery of stroke patients and their families. Their team gathered numerous world-renowned medical stroke experts, and with the help of stroke patients, they came to a perfect solution. The solution that puts a patient in the first place. And brings the stroke recovery to the comfort of the patient’s homes. It’s important to highlight that their app offers solutions in areas of speech, physical and mental therapies, along with the caregiver interface. The caregiver interface allows the family to be directly involved in the rehabilitation of their loved ones and improves the quality of their relationship.