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The Third-stage Community-based Rehabilitation on Hemiplegia after Stroke

Shuyin Zhang

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Objective To observe the effects of the third-stage community-based rehabilitation program on functional recovery of stroke patients with hemiplegia.Methods 158 stroke patients with hemiplegia were divided into rehabilitation group and control group.Besides normal medicine and first-stage institution-based rehabilitation similar with that of control,rehabilitation group received a standardized third-stage community-based rehabilitation.They were assessed with the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale(NIHSS),Fugl-Meyer Assessment(FMA),Modified Barthel Index(MBI) and Modified Rankin Scale(MRS) before,1 month and 6 months after treatment.Results The scores of the FMA and the MBI of the rehabilitation group were higher than that of the control group(P0.01),while were lower of the NIHSS and MRS in the rehabilitation group than in the control group at the end of the sixth month(P0.01).Conclusion The third-stage community-based rehabilitation may improve the recovery of the stroke patients with hemiplegia.

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Key concepts: Rehabilitation, Barthel index, Stroke (engine), Physical therapy, Modified Rankin Scale, Physical medicine and rehabilitation, Medicine, Stage (stratigraphy)