title: [Comparison of the effects of rehabilitation in stroke patients rehabilitated in stationary conditions and the home].
abstract: Rehabilitation after stroke is to help the patient recover optimal physical condition, psychosocial and vocational. Standard of care is to ensure comprehensiveness and continuity of the rehabilitation process.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Was to compare the effects of rehabilitation in stroke patients rehabilitated in the hospital and at home.
  
  
  METHODS
  The 90 patients after ischemic stroke were examined. The first examined group (45 people) consisted ofpatients rehabilitated at the Department of Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine of the WAM University Hospital in Lodz. The second examined group number (45 people) consisted of patients waiting for admission to the Department of Rehabilitation, who were rehabilitated in environmental conditions. The patients were examined twice: first before the rehabilitation (study I) and then at the end of rehabilitation program (study II). Functional status was examined with the Barthel ADL Index and the Brunnstrom scale.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Both individuals after stroke rehabilitated in hospital and those rehabilitated in environmental conditions achieved a significant improvement in functional of paretic limbs and improving independence in activities of daily living. However, the improvement observed in the hospital group was significantly higher. Better positive effects in patients included hospital rehabilitation is achieved through the implementation of comprehensive treatment of the involvement in the therapeutic process the entire interdisciplinary team.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The comprehensive stationary rehabilitation significantly affected on improving the functional ability of stroke compared to those rehabilitated in environmental conditions. Rehabilitation at home, even though it is associated with certain restrictions is an important element in the overall process of rehabilitation.
authors.forename: Agnieszka
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jankowska
authors.forename: Katarzyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Krekora
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Klimkiewicz
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kubsik
authors.forename: Paulina
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Klimkiewicz
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Woldańska-Okońska
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D006701:Home Nursing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D010814:Physical Therapy Department, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011044:Poland; D000071939:Stroke Rehabilitation; D016896:Treatment Outcome