Physical Fitness Training for Patients With Stroke

Cardiorespiratory and musculoskeletal fitness are low after stroke. Interventions to improve physical fitness after stroke could have a range of physical, cognitive, and psychosocial benefits.The primary aims of this updated review1 were to determine whether physical fitness training after stroke reduces death, dependence, and disability. The secondary aims were to assess the effects of training on adverse events, risk factors, physical fitness, mobility, physical function, quality of life, mood, and cognitive function. Cognition outcomes have become an important poststroke intervention target and are, therefore, added to this review update. Search MethodsWe searched the Cochrane Stroke Group Trials Register (last searched February 2015), the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL 2015, Issue 1: searched February 2015), MEDLINE (1966 to February 2015), EMBASE (1980 to February 2015), CINAHL (1982 to February …