Stroke rehabilitation: recent advances and future therapies

I'm not going to buy this, your doctor should have it. But I bet they miss the whole point of the complete failure of stroke rehab(10% full recovery is failure by any measure). The only way to ameliorate that is to reduce the dead and damaged neurons that occur during the neuronal cascade of death. The rehabilitation silo is not where to look for great advances.
http://qjmed.oxfordjournals.org/content/106/1/11.short

Abstract

Despite advances in the acute management of stroke, a large proportion of stroke patients are left with significant impairments. Over the coming decades the prevalence of stroke-related disability is expected to increase worldwide and this will impact greatly on families, healthcare systems and economies. Effective neuro-rehabilitation is a key factor in reducing disability after stroke. In this review, we discuss the effects of stroke, principles of stroke rehabilitative care and predictors of recovery. We also discuss novel therapies in stroke rehabilitation, including non-invasive brain stimulation, robotics and pharmacological augmentation. Many trials are currently underway, which, in time, may impact on future rehabilitative practice.