To determine whether physical rehabilitation approaches are effective in recovery of function and mobility in people with stroke, and
to assess if any one physical rehabilitation approach is more effective than any other approach.
For the previous versions of this review, the objective was to explore the effect of ’physiotherapy treatment approaches’ based on
historical classifications of orthopaedic, neurophysiological or motor learning principles, or on a mixture of these treatment principles.
For this update of the review, the objective was to explore the effects of approaches that incorporate individual treatment components,
categorised as functional task training, musculoskeletal intervention (active),musculoskeletal intervention (passive), neurophysiological
intervention, cardiopulmonary intervention, assistive device or modality.
In addition, we sought to explore the impact of time after stroke, geographical location of the study, dose of the intervention, provider
of the intervention and treatment components included within an intervention