Occupational therapy gets stroke patients out of the house

doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7479.0-a

BMJ 2004;329 (11 December), doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7479.0-a

Occupational therapy gets stroke patients out of the house

Occupational therapy improves stroke patients' outdoor mobility.Logan and colleagues (p 1372) randomly assigned 168 patientswho had had a stroke in the previous 36 months to receive leafletsdescribing local transport services for disabled people, alongwith up to seven therapy sessions by an occupational therapist,or to receive leaflets only. Patients who had therapy were morelikely to say they got out of the house as often as they wanted;after four and 10 months they had made more outdoor journeysthan patients in the control group.

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Randomised controlled trial of an occupational therapy intervention to increase outdoor mobility after stroke: P A Logan, J R F Gladman, A Avery, M F Walker, J Dyas, and L Groom
BMJ 2004 329: 1372. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]