The goal of stroke rehabilitation is to help you relearn skills you lost when a stroke affected part of your brain. Stroke rehabilitation can help you regain independence and improve your quality of life.

Physical rehab focuses on strengthening motor skills. Exercises are designed to help improve muscle strength and coordination, utilizing specific therapies in order to strengthen the stroke-affected parts of the body.For example, many stroke survivors will go through mobility training to learn to use walking aids (canes, braces, or walkers) and to help increase ankle strength, which will better help support the body.

Range-of-motion therapy exercises help lessen muscle tension and help patients regain range of motion

Technology is becoming increasingly incorporated into many types of stroke rehabilitation. For example, controlled amounts of electricity can be used to stimulate weakened muscles. The electricity causes those muscles to contract, helping with muscle memory.