The Stroke Association have initiated a new ‘Exercise-based Stroke Rehabilitation service‘ where it signposts stroke survivors to evidence based exercise options. Clients must be referred by a health professional, such as their physiotherapist, GP, stroke specialist nurse or occupational therapist. The service provides a 12 week programme of exercise and education sessions for stroke survivors, to…
Are you an EfS Instructor? We have now produced a print friendly set of home exercise sheets that you can download and print off individual pages with a chance to add specific instructions. Click here to find out more.
The Health Improvement Service at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust have just published their evaluation of the Exercise after Stroke Service delivered in a community venue during 2012-1013. The primary aim of the 12 week programme was to provide safe, effective, evidence based physical activity sessions to ambulatory stroke survivors who had completed…
Wiltshire’s Exercise after Stroke (EAS) Programme is funded by Public Health and was launched in September 2012. There are currently 9 starter classes and 4 maintenance groups across Wiltshire (May 2013). Over the past 6 months the existing Marlborough class has been transitioned into the new ‘starter’ format and 3 new locations for additional classes…
Elsevier has recently published a new ‘Exercise and Fitness Training After Stroke’ book. Edited by Professor Gillian Mead and Dr Frederike van Wijck and with contributions from the LLT team, Susie Dinan-Young, Bex Townley, Sara Paul and John Dennis, this book is a must read for all those working with stroke patients in your services.…
This months Stroke Matters (May 2011) has an excellent article by Dr Gillian Mead, one of the key researchers behind the evidence base for exercise and fitness training after stroke and one of the key developers of the Exercise and Fitness training after Stroke (EfS) course now run by LLT. The article starts with how…
LLT are working with Clare Draper and Trish Cowie from Wiltshire Council to ensure the best outcome measures are used in practice. They will help in the auditing of the project to see the effect of EfS delivered classes on function and quality of life in Stroke survivors discharged from rehabilitation.
Cochrane Review: Interventions for post-stroke fatigue
McGeough et al. 2009
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McGeough et al Cochrane fatigue in stroke 2009 Summary to download Summary
Cochrane Review: Circuit class therapy for improving mobility after stroke
English et al. 2010
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A systematic review of exercise trials post stroke, Meek et al. Clin Rehabil. 2003 has been updated in 2011. It is available to view on the Cochrane website.
