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  1. Movement-Based Mindfulness vs. Attention Control for Modifying Physiological Risk in Chronic Stroke: Evidence from a Feasibility Trial
  2. Working together effectively in research: Co-design and evaluation of capacity-building modules for researchers and people with lived experience of stroke
  3. Does Vessel Occlusion Drive the Harmful Effect of Very Early Mobilization in Patients With Ischemic Stroke?: A Post Hoc Analysis of AVERT
  4. An exploration of serious falls after stroke using a large international stroke rehabilitation database
  5. Re-Imagining Hospital Patient Room Design for People After stroke: A Randomized Controlled Study Using Virtual Reality
  6. Built Environments to Support Rehabilitation for People With Stroke From the Hospital to the Home (B-Sure): Protocol for a Mixed Method Participatory Co-Design Study
  7. Stroke Inpatient Rehabilitation Environments: Aligning Building Construction and Clinical Practice Guidelines Through Care Process Mapping
  8. Secondary prevention of stroke. A telehealth-delivered physical activity and diet pilot randomized trial (ENAbLE-pilot)
  9. Built Environments to Support Rehabilitation for People With Stroke From the Hospital to the Home (B-Sure): Protocol for a Mixed Method Participatory Co-Design Study (Preprint)
  10. Improving Access to, and Quality of, Stroke Rehabilitation
  11. A phase III, multi-arm multi-stage covariate-adjusted response-adaptive randomized trial to determine optimal early mobility training after stroke (AVERT DOSE)
  12. Cognitive Deficits After Stroke
  13. Towards the Consistent Inclusion of People With Aphasia in Stroke Research Irrespective of Discipline
  14. Self-evaluation of personal needs by community-living young stroke survivors using an online English language questionnaire
  15. The economic and health burden of stroke among younger adults in Australia from a societal perspective
  16. “Can you hear me now?” Video conference coping strategies and experience during COVID-19 and beyond
  17. Built environments for inpatient stroke rehabilitation services and care: a systematic literature review
  18. How to Address Physical Activity Participation After Stroke in Research and Clinical Practice
  19. What Is Next After This Well-Conducted, but Neutral, Multisite Trial Testing Self-Rehabilitation Approaches?
  20. Young Stroke Survivors' Preferred Methods of Meeting Their Unique Needs
  21. Factors associated with time to independent walking recovery post-stroke
  22. Determining Maximal Tolerable Aerobic Training Intensity in the Acute Phase after Stroke: a Novel Dose Ranging Trial Protocol
  23. Fatal and non-fatal events within 14 days after early, intensive mobilization post stroke
  24. Exploring colour in context using Virtual Reality: Does a room change how you feel?
  25. Look closer: The multidimensional patterns of post-stroke burden behind the modified Rankin Scale
  26. Early mobilisation post-stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data
  27. Exploring post acute rehabilitation service use and outcomes for working age stroke survivors (≤65 years) in Australia, UK and South East Asia: data from the international AVERT trial
  28. Acute Hospital Admission for Stroke Is Characterised by Inactivity
  29. Setting the scene for the Second Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable
  30. Economic evaluation of a phase III international randomised controlled trial of very early mobilisation after stroke (AVERT)
  31. Robotic-assisted training after stroke: RATULS advances science
  32. Two Days of Measurement Provides Reliable Estimates of Physical Activity Poststroke: An Observational Study
  33. Improving life after stroke needs global efforts to implement evidence-based physical activity pathways
  34. A Framework for Designing Inpatient Stroke Rehabilitation Facilities: A New Approach Using Interdisciplinary Value-Focused Thinking
  35. Utility-weighted modified Rankin Scale: Still too crude to be a truly patient-centric primary outcome measure?
  36. How can stroke care be improved for younger service users? A qualitative study on the unmet needs of younger adults in inpatient and outpatient stroke care in Australia
  37. Safety and efficacy of recovery-promoting drugs for motor function after stroke: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials
  38. Breaking up sitting time after stroke – How much less sitting is needed to improve blood pressure after stroke (BUST-BP-dose): Protocol for a dose-finding study
  39. The personal and social experiences of community-dwelling younger adults after stroke in Australia: a qualitative interview study
  40. Are hospital single rooms best for all types of people ?
  41. Characterising Arm Recovery in People with Severe Stroke (CARPSS): protocol for a 12-month observational study of clinical, neuroimaging and neurophysiological biomarkers
  42. Rationale for Intervention and Dose Is Lacking in Stroke Recovery Trials: A Systematic Review
  43. Very early versus delayed mobilisation after stroke
  44. Statistical analysis plan (SAP) for the Very Early Rehabilitation in Speech (VERSE) after stroke trial: an international 3-arm clinical trial to determine the effectiveness of early, intensive, prescribed, direct aphasia therapy
  45. Additional structured physical activity does not improve walking in older people (> 60 years) undergoing inpatient rehabilitation: a randomised trial
  46. Breaking up sitting time after stroke (BUST-stroke)
  47. Frequent, short bouts of light-intensity exercises while standing decreases systolic blood pressure: Breaking Up Sitting Time after Stroke (BUST-Stroke) trial
  48. Early Mobilization After Stroke Is Not Associated With Cognitive Outcome
  49. Implementing a protocol for a research impact assessment of the Centre for Research Excellence in Stroke Rehabilitation and Brain Recovery
  50. The Post Ischaemic Stroke Cardiovascular Exercise Study: Protocol for a randomised controlled trial of fitness training for brain health
  51. The AVERT MoCA Data: Scoring Reliability in a Large Multicenter Trial
  52. Authors’ response to Letter to the Editor: Divergence among researchers regarding the stratification of time after stroke is still a concern
  53. Advances in Stroke 2017
  54. The Energy Cost of Steady State Physical Activity in Acute Stroke
  55. Behavioral Mapping of Patient Activity to Explore the Built Environment During Rehabilitation
  56. Best practice guidelines for the measurement of physical activity levels in stroke survivors
  57. Efficacy and Safety of Individualized Coaching After Stroke: the LAST Study (Life After Stroke)
  58. Hospital ward design and neurological patient activity
  59. Upright activity and higher motor function may preserve bone mineral density within 6 months of stroke: a longitudinal study
  60. How to do health services research in stroke: A focus on performance measurement and quality improvement
  61. Validity of Multisensor Array for Measuring Energy Expenditure of an Activity Bout in Early Stroke Survivors
  62. Effects of Physical Activity on Poststroke Cognitive Function
  63. What is the relationship between physical activity and cardiovascular risk factors in stroke survivors post completion of rehabilitation? Protocol for a longitudinal study
  64. Standardized Measurement of Sensorimotor Recovery in Stroke Trials: Consensus-Based Core Recommendations from the Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable
  65. Agreed Definitions and a Shared Vision for New Standards in Stroke Recovery Research: The Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable Taskforce
  66. A Very Early Rehabilitation Trial after stroke (AVERT): a Phase III, multicentre, randomised controlled trial
  67. Boredom in patients with acquired brain injuries during inpatient rehabilitation: a scoping review
  68. Moving Rehabilitation Research Forward: Developing Consensus Statements for Rehabilitation and Recovery Research
  69. Family-led rehabilitation after stroke in India (ATTEND): a randomised controlled trial
  70. A comparative study of patients’ activities and interactions in a stroke unit before and after reconstruction—The significance of the built environment
  71. Editorial
  72. Standardized measurement of sensorimotor recovery in stroke trials: Consensus-based core recommendations from the Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable
  73. Agreed definitions and a shared vision for new standards in stroke recovery research: The Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable taskforce
  74. Effectiveness of a shared team approach between nurses and doctors for improved risk factor management in survivors of stroke: a cluster randomized controlled trial
  75. How Physically Active Are People Following Stroke? Systematic Review and Quantitative Synthesis
  76. The potential health and economic impact of improving stroke care standards for Australia
  77. Reduced bone formation markers, and altered trabecular and cortical bone mineral densities of non-paretic femurs observed in rats with ischemic stroke: A randomized controlled pilot study
  78. Carers' experiences, needs and preferences during inpatient stroke rehabilitation: a systematic review of qualitative studies
  79. Early mobilisation and rehabilitation in intensive care unit—ready for implementation?
  80. Early rehabilitation after stroke
  81. Interventions for the uptake of evidence-based recommendations in acute stroke settings
  82. Reducing sedentary time and fat mass may improve glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity in adults surviving 6 months after stroke: A phase I pilot study
  83. Are we armed with the right data? Pooled individual data review of biomarkers in people with severe upper limb impairment after stroke
  84. Early Mobilization after Stroke: Changes in Clinical Opinion Despite an Unchanging Evidence Base
  85. Erratum to "Are we armed with the right data? Pooled individual data review of biomarkers in people with severe upper limb impairment after stroke”
  86. Treatment and Outcomes of Working Aged Adults with Stroke: Results from a National Prospective Registry
  87. Breaking up sitting time after stroke (BUST-Stroke)
  88. Developing the Stroke Exercise Preference Inventory (SEPI)
  89. Additional weekend therapy may reduce length of rehabilitation stay after stroke: a meta-analysis of individual patient data
  90. Implementing a complex rehabilitation intervention in a stroke trial: a qualitative process evaluation of AVERT
  91. A randomized controlled trial of very early rehabilitation in speech after stroke
  92. Moving rehabilitation research forward: Developing consensus statements for rehabilitation and recovery research
  93. Energy Expenditure and Cost During Walking After Stroke: A Systematic Review
  94. Poststroke Physical Activity Levels No Higher in Rehabilitation than in the Acute Hospital
  95. Economic Evaluation Plan (EEP) for A Very Early Rehabilitation Trial (AVERT): An international trial to compare the costs and cost-effectiveness of commencing out of bed standing and walking training (very early mobilization) within 24 h of stroke onse...
  96. Prespecified dose-response analysis for A Very Early Rehabilitation Trial (AVERT)
  97. Reducing Sitting Time After Stroke: A Phase II Safety and Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial
  98. Upright activity within the first week after stroke is associated with better functional outcome and health-related quality of life: A Norwegian multi-site study
  99. The Scandinavian Stroke Scale is equally as good as The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale in identifying 3-month outcome
  100. Is early rehabilitation a myth? Physical inactivity in the first week after myocardial infarction and stroke
  101. AVERT 2 (a very early rehabilitation trial, a very effective reproductive trigger): retrospective observational analysis of the number of babies born to trial staff
  102. An International Standard Set of Patient-Centered Outcome Measures After Stroke
  103. Exploring the Role of Accelerometers in the Measurement of Real World Upper-Limb Use After Stroke
  104. Prevalence of fatigue in patients 3 months after stroke and association with early motor activity: a prospective study comparing stroke patients with a matched general population cohort
  105. Could upright posture be harmful in the early stages of stroke? – Author's reply
  106. Very early mobilisation within 24 hours of stroke results in a less favourable outcome at 3 months [Author's response]
  107. Frühe Mobilisation nach Schlaganfall: Akzeptiert, aber noch limitierte Evidenz (Originaltitel: Early mobilization after stroke: Early adoption but limited evidence)
  108. Stroke Survivors' Experiences of Physical Rehabilitation: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies
  109. Carers’ experiences, needs and preferences during inpatient stroke rehabilitation: a protocol for a systematic review of qualitative studies
  110. Sitting time and physical activity after stroke: physical ability is only part of the story
  111. Clinical feasibility of interactive motion-controlled games for stroke rehabilitation
  112. Exploring threats to generalisability in a large international rehabilitation trial (AVERT)
  113. Prospective observation of physical activity in critically ill patients who were intubated for more than 48 hours
  114. Efficacy and safety of very early mobilisation within 24 h of stroke onset (AVERT): a randomised controlled trial
  115. A Phase 1 Exercise Dose Escalation Study for Stroke Survivors with Impaired Walking
  116. Sitting and Activity Time in People With Stroke
  117. Hospital Differences in Motor Activity Early after Stroke: A Comparison of 11 Norwegian Stroke Units
  118. Circuit Class Therapy or Seven-Day Week Therapy for Increasing Rehabilitation Intensity of Therapy after Stroke (CIRCIT): A Randomized Controlled Trial
  119. Early Mobilization After Stroke: Early Adoption but Limited Evidence
  120. Evaluating the effects of increasing physical activity to optimize rehabilitation outcomes in hospitalized older adults (MOVE Trial): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
  121. Statistical Analysis Plan (SAP) for a Very Early Rehabilitation Trial (AVERT): An International Trial to Determine the Efficacy and Safety of Commencing out of Bed Standing and Walking Training (Very Early Mobilization) within 24 h of Stroke Onset vs. ...
  122. How is physical activity monitored in people following stroke?
  123. The importance of cognition to quality of life after stroke
  124. Mobilization after thrombolysis (rtPA) within 24 hours of acute stroke: what factors influence inclusion of patients in A Very Early Rehabilitation Trial (AVERT)?
  125. Circuit Class Therapy and 7-Day-Week Therapy Increase Physiotherapy Time, But Not Patient Activity
  126. “Ward talk”: Nurses’ interaction with people with and without aphasia in the very early period poststroke
  127. Motivational interviewing to increase physical activity in people with chronic health conditions: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  128. Physical Activity and Exercise Recommendations for Stroke Survivors: A Statement for Healthcare Professionals From the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association
  129. Physical Activity Early after Stroke and Its Association to Functional Outcome 3 Months Later
  130. A qualitative exploration of discharge destination as an outcome or a driver of acute stroke care
  131. Exercise Reduces Infarct Volume and Facilitates Neurobehavioral Recovery
  132. Sedentary Behaviour and Physical Activity of People with Stroke in Rehabilitation Hospitals
  133. Interdisciplinary Team Interactions in Stroke Units: Can Team Dynamics Influence Patient Outcomes from a Clinician’s Perspective
  134. Changes to Volumetric Bone Mineral Density and Bone Strength after Stroke: A Prospective Study
  135. Are Patients with Intracerebral Haemorrhage Disadvantaged in Hospitals?
  136. Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviors in People With Stroke Living in the Community: A Systematic Review
  137. Physical inactivity, depression and anxiety in acute stroke
  138. Stroke Rehabilitation in China: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  139. An enriched environment increases activity in stroke patients undergoing rehabilitation in a mixed rehabilitation unit: a pilot non-randomized controlled trial
  140. Approaches to Economic Evaluations of Stroke Rehabilitation
  141. Representation of People with Aphasia in Randomized Controlled Trials of Acute Stroke Interventions
  142. Exercise after stroke - introduction
  143. Montreal Cognitive Assessment and Mini-Mental State Examination are both valid cognitive tools in stroke
  144. How do comprehensive and acute stroke units differ? A critical review
  145. A mapping study on physical activity in stroke rehabilitation: Establishing the baseline
  146. Changes in Activity Levels in the First Month after Stroke
  147. Physical Activity Patterns of Acute Stroke Patients Managed in a Rehabilitation Focused Stroke Unit
  148. Measuring Activity Levels at an Acute Stroke Ward: Comparing Observations to a Device
  149. Early Physical Activity and Discharge Destination after Stroke: A Comparison of Acute and Comprehensive Stroke Unit Care
  150. Selection for inpatient rehabilitation after severe stroke: What factors influence rehabilitation assessor decision-making?
  151. Gender and being born overseas influences the amount of acute stroke therapy
  152. Changes in physical activity and related functional and disability levels in the first six months after stroke: A longitudinal follow-up study
  153. When Should Rehabilitation Begin after Stroke?
  154. Giant Steps for the Science of Stroke Rehabilitation
  155. More Outcomes than Trials: A Call for Consistent Data Collection across Stroke Rehabilitation Trials
  156. Accessing inpatient rehabilitation after acute severe stroke
  157. Reply
  158. Physical, cognitive and social activity levels of stroke patients undergoing rehabilitation within a mixed rehabilitation unit
  159. Cutting a long story short: Reaction times in acute stroke are associated with longer term cognitive outcomes
  160. Harnessing experience-dependent plasticity for CNS repair and regeneration
  161. Physical Therapists' Guideline Adherence on Early Mobilization and Intensity of Practice at Dutch Acute Stroke Units: A Country-Wide Survey
  162. Exploring the Efficacy of Constraint in Animal Models of Stroke
  163. Enhancing physical activity in older adults receiving hospital based rehabilitation: a phase II feasibility study
  164. Organization of Care
  165. Early Mobilization Testing in Patients With Acute Stroke
  166. Changes in Fat Mass in Stroke Survivors: A Systematic Review
  167. Stroke management: updated recommendations for treatment along the care continuum
  168. Ultrasound Is a Reliable Measure of Muscle Thickness in Acute Stroke Patients, for Some, but Not All Anatomical Sites: A Study of the Intra-Rater Reliability of Muscle Thickness Measures in Acute Stroke Patients
  169. Translating the Use of An Enriched Environment Poststroke from Bench to Bedside: Study Design and Protocol Used to Test the Feasibility of Environmental Enrichment on Stroke Patients in Rehabilitation
  170. Physical Activity in Hospitalised Stroke Patients
  171. Stroke: Physical Fitness, Exercise, and Fatigue
  172. Exercise Preferences Are Different after Stroke
  173. Physical Fitness Training after Stroke, Time to Implement what we Know: More Research is Needed
  174. Circuit Class or Seven-Day Therapy for Increasing Intensity of Rehabilitation after Stroke: Protocol of the CIRCIT Trial
  175. Stroke Patients Do Not Need to be Inactive in the First Two-Weeks after Stroke: Results from a Stroke Unit Focused on Early Rehabilitation
  176. The effect of physical activity on cognitive function after stroke: a systematic review
  177. Bed Rest or Mobilization after rt-PA? A Case-Crossover Study of Factors Influencing Clinical Decision Making in Stroke Services
  178. Stepping towards Prevention of Bone Loss after Stroke: A Systematic Review of the Skeletal Effects of Physical Activity after Stroke
  179. Does evidence really matter? Professionals' opinions on the practice of early mobilization after stroke
  180. Response to Letter by Freeman et al Regarding Article, "Very Early Mobilization After Stroke Fast-Tracks Return to Walking: Further Results From the Phase II AVERT Randomized Controlled Trial"
  181. An Early Mobilization Protocol Successfully Delivers More and Earlier Therapy to Acute Stroke Patients
  182. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment: Short Cognitive Evaluation in a Large Stroke Trial
  183. Predictors of Poststroke Mobility: Systematic Review
  184. Patients' age as a determinant of care received following acute stroke: A systematic review
  185. Age and gender as predictors of allied health quality stroke care
  186. Demographic and stroke-related factors as predictors of quality of acute stroke care provided by allied health professionals
  187. Stroke rehabilitation
  188. ‘Better Wear Out Sheets than Shoes’: A Survey of 202 Stroke Professionals' Early Mobilisation Practices and Concerns
  189. Very Early Mobilization After Stroke Fast-Tracks Return to Walking: Further Results From the Phase II AVERT Randomized Controlled Trial
  190. Sehr frühe Mobilisation nach Schlaganfall
  191. Measuring the Quality of Dysphagia Management Practices following Stroke: A Systematic Review
  192. Early Mobilization After Stroke: An Example of an Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis of a Complex Intervention
  193. An Enriched Environment Improves Sensorimotor Function Post-Ischemic Stroke
  194. Loss of Skeletal Muscle Mass after Stroke: a Systematic Review
  195. An Investigation of the Neurophysiologic Effect of Tone-Reducing AFOs on Reflex Excitability in Subjects with Spasticity Following Stroke while Standing
  196. The Effect of Tone-Reducing Orthotic Devices on Soleus Muscle Reflex Excitability while Standing in Patients with Spasticity Following Stroke
  197. The NIH Stroke Scale Can Establish Cognitive Function after Stroke
  198. Very Early Rehabilitation or Intensive Telemetry after Stroke: A Pilot Randomised Trial
  199. The Modified Rankin Scale in Acute Stroke Has Good Inter-Rater-Reliability but Questionable Validity
  200. Physiotherapists should ensure their representation in measures of the quality of patient care
  201. Hemispatial Neglect and Rehabilitation in Acute Stroke
  202. Quality of life: An important outcome measure in a trial of very early mobilisation after stroke
  203. Very Early Versus Delayed Mobilization After Stroke
  204. Systematic Review of Process Indicators: Including Early Rehabilitation Interventions Used to Measure Quality of Acute Stroke Care
  205. Very early versus delayed mobilisation after stroke
  206. CONTRIBUTORS
  207. Very Early Mobilisation and Complications in the First 3 Months after Stroke: Further Results from Phase II of A Very Early Rehabilitation Trial (AVERT)
  208. An Observational Study of Acute Stroke Care in Four Countries: The European Registers of Stroke Study
  209. The Therapy ‘Pill’: Achieving Treatment Dose Within a Rehabilitation Trial
  210. Commentary on Arias M & Smith L (2007) Early mobilization of acute stroke patients. Journal of Clinical Nursing 16, 282–288
  211. Not All Stroke Units Are the Same: A Comparison of Physical Activity Patterns in Melbourne, Australia, and Trondheim, Norway
  212. A Very Early Rehabilitation Trial for Stroke (AVERT): Phase II Safety and Feasibility
  213. More options and better job security required in career paths of physiotherapist researchers: an observational study
  214. The effect of very early mobilisation after stroke on psychological well-being
  215. Economic Evaluation alongside a Phase II, Multi-Centre, Randomised Controlled Trial of Very Early Rehabilitation after Stroke (AVERT)
  216. What is spasticity? The discussion continues
  217. Changing practice for acute hemiplegic shoulder care: A best practice model
  218. Advancing rehabilitation clinical trials design
  219. Mobilisation ‘in Bed’ Is Not Mobilisation
  220. Little therapy, little physical activity: Rehabilitation within the first 14 days of organized stroke unit care
  221. Very early versus delayed mobilisation after stroke
  222. A Very Early Rehabilitation Trial (AVERT)
  223. Strapping the hemiplegic shoulder prevents development of pain during rehabilitation: a randomized controlled trial
  224. Evolution of Brain Activation with Good and Poor Motor Recovery after Stroke
  225. Stand up and be counted: measuring time spent upright after hip fracture and comparison with community dwelling older people
  226. A Comparison of Single Words and Conversational Speech in Phonological Evaluation
  227. Motor Impairment and Recovery in the Upper Limb After Stroke: Behavioral and Neuroanatomical Correlates
  228. We only treat what it occurs to us to assess: the importance of knowledge-based assessment
  229. Inactive and Alone: Physical Activity Within the First 14 Days of Acute Stroke Unit Care
  230. Does experience predict observational kinematic assessment accuracy?
  231. Training novice clinicians improves observation accuracy of the upper extremity after stroke
  232. Evidence-based practice
  233. A case for slow to recover rehabilitation services following severe acquired brain injury
  234. Changes in balance and locomotion measures during rehabilitation following stroke
  235. Balance and mobility outcomes for stroke patients: a comprehensive audit
  236. A New Test of Dynamic Standing Balance for Stroke Patients: Reliability, Validity and Comparison with Healthy Elderly
  237. Functional prediction post-stroke
  238. Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Effect of a Task-Oriented Rehabilitation Program on Upper Extremity Recovery Following Motor Stroke: The ICARE Randomized Clinical Trial.
  239. Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Minimum information about a spinal cord injury experiment: a proposed reporting standard for spinal cord injury experiments.