[Home-based rehabilitation in the functional recovery of patients with cerebrovascular disease].

Introduction: The study of the effectiveness of rehabilitation treatment applied to patients with sequelae following a cerebrovascular disease (CVD) plays a decisive role nowadays in planning their management in public healthcare and to improve existing guidelines regarding assessment and treatment.

Aim: To describe the characteristics presented by patients who have suffered a CVD and were treated in mobile rehabilitation-physiotherapy units (MRPU) and how such treatment affects their functional recovery.

Patients And Methods: Descriptive, prospective study conducted on 124 patients referred to the MRPUs in the province of Almeria between 2008 and 2011.

[Analysis of the activity of mobile rehabilitation-physiotherapy units in primary care].

Objective: To describe the home care provided by mobile rehabilitation-physiotherapy teams as a response to the needs of the dependent population, the characteristics of their application, and the results they have on patients and their functional independence.

Design: A descriptive, cross-sectional study from 2004 to June 2007.

Setting: Community setting.