[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.