Home Health & Hospice Week

You may receive more referrals for stroke patients requiring therapy, thanks to a new study unveiled at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference in Los Angeles. In the largest stroke rehabilitation study ever conducted in the U.S., stroke patients who had physical therapy at home improved their ability to walk just as well as those who were treated in a training program that requires the use of a bodyweight supported treadmill device followed by walking practice, says the National Institutes of Health in a release. The study researchers from the Duke University School of Medicine had expected the so-called locomotor training to show results superior to the intensive home-based program, but the results were equivalent. The study showed that "the more expensive, high tech therapy was not superior to intensive home strength and balance training, but both were better than lower intensity physical therapy," physician Walter Koroshetz, deputy director [...]