New Strategies and New Rehabilitation Evaluations to Stroke–2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

In most countries, stroke is the leading cause of death and one of the main reasons for adult-onset disability. After a stroke, more than 80% of patients experience motor impairment that affects their daily activities and quality of life. For these reasons, stroke patients need effective rehabilitation programs to achieve the highest possible level of physical autonomy. Several rehabilitation approaches are used to increase motor deficit recovery and improve their quality of life.

This Special Issue of Brain Sciences aims to present a collection of studies describing the most recent advancements in the field of strategies and evaluative and rehabilitation techniques to improve motor recovery after stroke. New rehabilitation strategies and new clinical and instrumental evaluations to analyze the rehabilitation effects and monitor the evolution of therapeutic programs and the evolution of the disease in motor and neurocognitive terms. Strategies applicable in the hospital, outpatient, or home setting to optimize rehabilitation and economic resources are welcome. These will be very considered rehabilitative strategies that use gamified tasks (for example, exergames in a virtual environment) to stimulate and maintain the functionality of the hands, upper limbs, lower limbs, posture, gait, and general health of the patient. Finally, manual therapy work on stroke patients will also be considered.

We are pleased to invite you to submit manuscripts covering basic research, clinical research, case studies, reviews, or meta-analyses to this Special Issue.

Dr. Luca Vismara
Dr. Veronica Cimolin
Guest Editors

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• stroke
• rehabilitation
• movement
• motion analysis
• symmetry
• motor recovery
• movement assessment
• clinical and functional outcomes
• evaluations
• manual therapy