Use of Rehab Therapy Poststroke Low in the United States

Since there is nothing out there with 100% recovery protocols even those that get rehab don't get recovered. With a publicly available database of rehab protocols survivors could take them to their therapists to get them recovered.  The top down approach of doctors and therapists deciding on what therapy to provide is wrong. Survivors want to control rehab since they know what they want to recover.

Use of Rehab Therapy Poststroke Low in the United States

Use of rehabilitative therapy within a year of stroke is low. Among 510 patients with acute stroke, 35.0% received no physical therapy, 48.8% received no occupational therapy, and 61.7% received no speech therapy. Severity of clinical factors, and not demographic factors, predicted rehab dosage.