The impact of physical therapy on functional outcomes after stroke: what's the evidence?

By R.P.S. van Peppen, Gert Kwakkel, S. Wood-Dauphinee, H. Hendriks, P. Wees, J. Dekker. Clinical Rehabilitation, 2004

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Cueing training in the home improves gait-related mobility in Parkinson’s disease: the RESCUE trial (2007, background): “36 37 The limited effects may also be explained by the relatively short training duration.”
Closing the sensorimotor loop: haptic feedback facilitates decoding of motor imagery (2011, background): “[12] R.”
Effects of Robot-Assisted Therapy on Upper Limb Recovery After Stroke: A Systematic Review (2008, background): “In addition, this training should be repetitive, functional, meaningful, and challenging for a patient.(3,4) However, the question as to how the effects of exercise therapy can be further enhanced in a clinical environment presents a challenge to answer.”
What Is the Evidence for Physical Therapy Poststroke? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2014, positive): “The recommendations in the first Dutch evidence-based ‘Clinical Practice Guideline for physical therapy in patients with stroke’ were based on meta-analyses of 123 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and date back to 2004 [12].”
Guidelines for management of ischaemic stroke and transient ischaemic attack 2008. (2008, background): “There is no clearly superior model of physiotherapy for stroke rehabilitation [515, 516], but some evidence exists to support specific interventions.”