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Exercise and Fitness Training After Stroke

a handbook for evidence-based practice

  • 1st Edition - September 27, 2012
  • Author: Peter Langhorne
  • Editors: Gillian E Mead, Frederike van Wijck
  • Language: English
  • Paperback ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 4 3 3 8 - 3
  • eBook ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 5 2 0 6 - 4

This brand new book is the first of its kind dedicated to exercise and fitness training after stroke. It aims to provide health and exercise professionals, and other suitably qu… Read more

Exercise and Fitness Training After Stroke

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This brand new book is the first of its kind dedicated to exercise and fitness training after stroke. It aims to provide health and exercise professionals, and other suitably qualified individuals, with the necessary information to design and evaluate exercise and fitness programmes for stroke survivors that are safe and effective. The content is based on current evidence and aligned with national clinical guidelines and service frameworks, highlighting the importance of physical activity in self-management after stroke. The book has also been written for stroke survivors and carers who may be interested in physical activity after stroke.

Exercise and Fitness Training After Stroke

comprehensively discusses the manifestations of stroke and how stroke is managed, the evidence for exercise and fitness training after stroke, how to design, deliver, adapt and evaluate exercise, as well as how to set up exercise services and specialist fitness training programmes for stroke survivors.