![]() ![]() ![]() More affordable ways of providing intensive, task specific therapy in the chronic phase of stroke are needed. However, this is not yet generally available in practice for patients in the chronic phase of stroke, possibly due to the high costs of individual sessions with a therapist. Therefore, training has to involve a few key parameters that are important for motor learning such as high intensity training, many repetitions and a task specific approach. However, more evidence is emerging that patients in the chronic phase of stroke are able to improve the upper limb function significantly. It is generally believed that after six months, a plateau in functional motor recovery is reached. Upper limb function is often undertreated according to patients, and consequently many return home from a hospital or rehabilitation center with remaining disabilities. During recovery, patients and therapists have to focus on many rehabilitation goals such as improving balance and gait, and reducing spasticity. After stroke, almost 77% of the patients have a paretic upper limb with loss of function, leading to a lower quality of life. Stroke is common in the general population, with annually 1.1 million people in Europe suffering from stroke. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver ( ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made.
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