A Systematic Review of Nonpharmacological Perceptual Rehabilitation After Stroke and Other Adult-Acquired Nonprogressive Brain Injury

Stroke, and other adult-acquired brain injury, can impair a person's ability to process the multiple sources of sensory data experienced in daily life. Perceptual impairments are many and diverse, impact on everyday activities, reduce independence, and cause distress, for example, difficulty recognizing familiar faces and everyday objects, errors judging movement and distance, and inability to find one's way around.This systematic review examined the quality of the evidence for rehabilitation interventions (eg, functional training, sensory stimulation, strategy training, task repetition) for people with perceptual impairments after stroke and acquired brain injury comparing …