Rehabilitation of patients with COVID-associated stroke using individual cognitive training: A case study

Abstract

The article presents a clinical case of rehabilitation of a patient with moderate cognitive and motor impairment after a COVID-associated stroke. The patient received a complex of rehabilitation measures with daily individualized cognitive training. By the end of the course of medical rehabilitation, the set goals were achieved: the patient learned to make simple decisions on her own, perform separately assigned tasks, independently attend physical therapy classes, physiotherapy, a canteen, walk around the room without the use of aids, climb to the 2nd floor without shortness of breath. The patient showed an improvement in cognitive functions: motor, dynamic and constructive praxis, object gnosis, visual-constructive skills, attention, abstract thinking and speech.

Keywords

• coronavirus infection
• covid-19
• ischemic stroke
• cognitive impairment
• cognitive training