ESOC 2025 | The future of stroke rehabilitation: moving beyond hospital-based interventions
Natasha A. Lannin, PhD, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, comments on the evolving field of stroke rehabilitation. She highlights its potential to move beyond traditional hospital-based interventions and into more personalized, self-directed, and technology-enabled approaches, such as telehealth and app-based programs. This interview took place at the 11th European Stroke Organisation Conference (ESOC) in Helsinki, Finland.
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I’m really excited to see how rehabilitation is moving much earlier in the stroke recovery journey, but then also thinking about stroke rehabilitation as being that recovery vehicle, so interventions that can help people to adapt and accommodate the changes post-stroke much longer term as well. So I think it’s really exciting we’re moving out of it being a hospital-based intervention to being an intervention that could be delivered on telehealth through apps and smart devices, but also ones that might be initiated by the person themselves, so you know, self-directed rehabilitation...
I’m really excited to see how rehabilitation is moving much earlier in the stroke recovery journey, but then also thinking about stroke rehabilitation as being that recovery vehicle, so interventions that can help people to adapt and accommodate the changes post-stroke much longer term as well. So I think it’s really exciting we’re moving out of it being a hospital-based intervention to being an intervention that could be delivered on telehealth through apps and smart devices, but also ones that might be initiated by the person themselves, so you know, self-directed rehabilitation. I think the future is really bright for rehabilitation, but I don’t think it’s about rehabilitation as a building anymore. I think we’ve moved beyond that.
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