[Occupational therapy for patients after stroke]

Medicina (Kaunas). 2003;39(11):1065-70.
[Article in Lithuanian]

Abstract

After the stroke, person can lose efficiency due to prolonged recovery of biosocial dysfunctions. Occupational therapy is a purposeful activity employed on individuals with different dysfunctions like cognitive disorders, psychosocial dysfunctions, mental disability as well as learning or physical disability and other illnesses and states. It is aimed at reaching functional results for health improvement. Occupational therapy includes observation and evaluation of the patients, using tests, measures and evaluation of the received results. The evaluation of the efficiency of separate occupational therapy methods is inseparable part of multiple rehabilitation development.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Activities of Daily Living
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Age Factors
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Biomechanical Phenomena
  • Child
  • Exercise Therapy
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Occupational Therapy*
  • Quality of Life
  • Rehabilitation Centers
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Stroke / physiopathology
  • Stroke / psychology
  • Stroke Rehabilitation*
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Time Factors