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 patients who had had a stroke in the previous 36 months to receive leaflets describing local transport services for disabled people, along with up to seven therapy sessions by an occupational therapist, or to receive leaflets only. Patients who had therapy were more likely to say they got out of the house as often as they wanted; after four and 10 months they had made more outdoor journeys than patients in the control group.

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