The first weeks after a stroke focus on safe mobility: sitting balance, transfers, and early standing, done with close supervision. Progress at this stage can look slow, but small gains here set up everything that follows.
As motor control returns, sessions shift toward task-specific practice, walking, reaching, hand function, repeated in ways that mirror real daily activities rather than isolated muscle exercises.
Family involvement changes outcomes. A caregiver who understands the home exercise program, and can supervise it safely between sessions, often matters as much as the clinic time itself.
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