[Rehabilitation after stroke]

Optimal rehabilitation should be available to every patient requiring such therapy as a basic right. Interdisciplinary cooperation is a prerequisite for the successful planning and carrying out of an individually tailored therapeutic regimen. The hemiplegic patient, in particular, requires a treatment schedule approached from different angles. If this is entirely lacking or only one-side, the expectations of the patient cannot be fulfilled. If current medical scientific concepts were universally put into practice, many cases of invalidity could be avoided. A systematic rehabilitation programme is certainly more cost-effective than the long-term nursing care of an invalid.