Australian researchers have reported that starting rehabilitation within 24 hours after a person has a stroke appears to be safe and beneficial.

High quality trials to examine this have suprisingly never been tested before as people always believed that patients could not participate in early exercise therapy so soon after a stroke or that it might not be safe.

Although the difference in death or serious adverse events was no marked difference between the test cases and the normal rates, the early rehab group were more likely to have good outcomes at the one year mark.

Now the safety and feasibility has been shown by the Australian team led by Dr Julie Bernhadt a larger trial of over 2000 patients has now started.

Source : Reuters News
Date : 19/2/2008

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