COMPREHENSIVE PHYSICAL THERAPY OF PATIENTS IN THE ACUTE PERIOD OF ISCHEMIC STROKE

Abstract

The article “Comprehensive physical therapy of patients in the acute period of ischemic stroke” is devoted to the actual problem of combating stroke. Every year, a stroke affects about 6 million people, and in Ukraine, more than 110,000 suffered a stroke in 204; since the beginning of 2025, 96,455 people have been diagnosed with a stroke. Stroke occupies the second place in the structure of the total mortality of the population, second only to cardiac pathology. The author proposed and highlighted a complex approach of physical therapy aimed at restoring the functional health indicators of patients who suffered an ischemic stroke. The main goal was to study the peculiarities of recovery of the functional state of post-stroke patients in the acute period and to substantiate the applied comprehensive measures of physical therapy and the use of a rehabilitation program aimed at restoring the functional health indicators of post-stroke patients in the acute period. The object of the study is the process of rehabilitation of patients after an ischemic stroke in the acute period. During the conducted research, all tasks were completed in full. The following methods were used in the research process: Analysis and generalization of literary sources on the problems of cerebrovascular pathologies; medical and biological methods of studying the morpho-functional state of the patient’s body (NIHSS scale, Barthel scale, mirror therapy); sociological methods (collection of anamnesis, analysis of medical history, examination of the patient); methods of mathematical statistics. The practical significance of the study made it possible to determine a new scientifically based complex approach to physical therapy of post-stroke patients of mature age in the acute period and, on this basis, to implement complex rehabilitation programs for use in practice. Having substantiated the positive effect of physical therapy on the recovery of post-stroke patients of mature age in the acute period, information was added about new modern approaches to complex physical therapy of such patients in the early period of the disease, both in hospital conditions and in the future after the patient is discharged. The fact of recovery of movements and self-care, the application of a program that includes various methods of physical therapy in patients after an ischemic stroke was studied experimentally. These patients were recommended to continue the rehabilitation program outside the experiment. During the experiment, not a single patient complained about deterioration of the general condition, or motor or other functions. Taking into account the results of the conducted experiment, practical recommendations on the continuation of the rehabilitation program outside the experiment were developed and given to the participants of the experimental and control groups, as well as proposed for use in rehabilitation in hospitals under inpatient conditions.