You may need your doctor to push back against this idea for stroke patients.
We need the real thing, accept no substitutes.
Look at the recovery benefits of actual drug prescription first.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiatry/Depression/37557?
Patients with more severe depression gain as much clinical benefit
from low-intensity interventions, such as self-help books and websites,
as those with less severe depression, researchers found.
In a meta-analysis, patients who were more severely depressed at
baseline had larger treatment effects with low-intensity interventions
than those who were less depressed (coefficient -0.1, 95% CI -0.19 to
-0.002), reported Peter Bower, PhD, of the University of Manchester in
England, and colleagues online in BMJ.
They cautioned, however, that the magnitude of the interaction was
small and may not be clinically significant. Still, it is possible that
patients with "more severe depression can be offered low-intensity
interventions as part of a stepped-care model."
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