Stroke Rehabilitation Burden and Unique Features in Low-Resource Settings

The chapter reviews core evidence-based practices in stroke rehabilitation and discusses strategies for adapting these interventions to environments with workforce shortages, financial constraints, and limited infrastructure. It examines the role of multidisciplinary teams and presents viable alternatives, including task shifting, caregiver involvement, and community-based models of care, to ensure continuity across the recovery pathway. Emerging innovations such as tele-rehabilitation, recent technologies, robotics, and virtual reality are also discussed, with an emphasis on their feasibility, scalability, and contextual adaptation for low-resource settings. The chapter further delves into actionable implementation frameworks and policy considerations to guide clinicians, administrators, and policymakers in strengthening stroke rehabilitation systems. Integrating evidence-based practice with context-sensitive innovation enables sustainable improvements in stroke recovery across diverse healthcare settings.