The modern approaches to the prognostication of rehabilitation of the patients after stroke on an individual basis: a review of the literature and the results of original investigations

Well shit the scientific approach to the prognostication of rehabilitation would to objectively look at the dead and damaged areas of the brain. Is everyone in stroke catching the stroke-addled cognitive problems lots of survivors have? Or don't they have two neurons to rub together?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26841523

[Article in Russian]

Razumov AN, Melnikova EA.

Abstract

This article was designed to analyze the results of the investigations with the purpose of elucidation of the prognostic factors relevant to the rehabilitation of the patients who survived after stroke. Special attention is given to the role of demographic (age and sex) factors and the data of the clinical, neurological, psychological, cognitive, and instrumental examination of the patients. The results of the original studies based on the treatment of 203 stroke patients are discussed in the context of modern concepts of the significance of the factors contributing to the recovery of the patients in the course of the post-stroke rehabilitation. The prognostic value of the selected factors, such as leukoareosis (for the patients presenting with hemorrhagic stroke), has been demonstrated for the first time. The new data on the duration of the rehabilitation period are presented with reference to its dependence on the type of stroke and localization of the lesions. Specifically, it is estimated to be 2 years for the patients who suffered from ischemic stroke in the brain stem, 31 months for those with ischemic stroke of the hemispherical localization, and 38 months for the patients presenting with hemorrhagic stroke (hemispherical hematoma). In addition, the data on the magnitude of the post-ischemic atrophic changes of prognostic values are presented.