Top 10 Evidence Based Arm Recovery Strategies After Stroke With Saebo

Amy Bean
Wednesday, August 20th, 2025

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This handy user guide of the Top 10 interventions for Stroke rehabilitation are supported by the latest UK and Ireland National Clinical Guidelines for Stroke, the Australian and New Zealand Stroke guidelines and Canadian Stroke Recommendations for Best Practice. A full reference can be found at the bottom of this post.

All dosage recommendations (“How much/How often”) comes from the best evidence available. For some interventions this is very concrete e.g. NMES for shoulder subluxation, and for others such as Mirror Therapy we know it works but exact guidance on dosage is not as well known so we have provided the best summary information available.

1. Electrical Stimulation : “NMES” or “FES

What Is it ?

An electrical current stimulates nerve activity in a targeted muscle to ellicit a muscle contraction. This can help build strength, enhance motor recovery and enable task practice when weak or no movement. If the movement generated is used to help practice a task this would FES (Functional Electrical Stimulation) and if used in isolation with no task it is NMES (Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation).

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