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Post-stroke exercise rehabilitation: What we know about retraining the motor system and how it may apply to retraining the heart

Andreas Luft, MD, Richard Macko, MD, Larry Forrester, PhD, Andrew Goldberg, MD and Daniel F. Hanley, MD
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2008, 75 (3 suppl 2) S83-S86;
Andreas Luft
Department of Neurology, University of Tübingen, Germany
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Richard Macko
Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC), Baltimore Veterans Administration Medical Center, and Department of Neurology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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Larry Forrester
Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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Andrew Goldberg
Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC), Baltimore Veterans Administration Medical Center, and Department of Medicine, Division of Gerontology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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Daniel F. Hanley
Professor, Acute Care Neurology, and Director, Division of Brain Injury Outcomes, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD
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A plateau in recovery within the first few months of rehabilitative therapy was assumed to be the norm in stroke survivors. Recent studies in our laboratory examined the effect of 6 months of treadmill exercise training in chronically disabled stroke survivors. Treadmill exercise improves fitness and walking ability in patients when initiated 6 months or more following their index stroke. Functional imaging studies show that such exercise also induces subcortical reorganization in these patients. Future investigations will explore the relationship between these functional and structural effects and characterize the therapeutic mechanisms of post-stroke rehabilitation. Nonetheless, treadmill exercise appears to have motor, cardiac, and daily functional benefits in stroke survivors.

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