[Rehabilitation treatment of patients with sequelae of stroke at a specialized rehabilitation center in Leningrad].

The article reviews a ten-year experience with rehabilitation of post-stroke patients accumulated at specialized in- and out-patient rehabilitation centers. The authors present the principles of structuring the recovery process, as well as the main components of rehabilitation programmes, individual methods, and their combination. The ultimate results of rehabilitation treatment are considerably better than those observed following the traditional chemo- and physiotherapy.