To watch a beloved one suffer due to stroke is a pathetic experience. While some of us can't imagine missing a day at the gym, others struggle with the work” in workout.” And when you're recovering from a stroke or caring from someone who is, ot exercises for stroke patients that are actually enjoyable can be challenging to think about - let alone do.
The current evidence supports a role for exercise which combines cardiorespiratory training (including walking as an exercise mode) and strength training (particularly involving the upper body) presented in a group setting with other stroke survivors.

However, in recent years new data has shown that treating patients with an intense, two-week regimen called Constraint-Induced Movement therapy, or CI therapy, can produce substantial improvement, allowing patients to regain a great deal of the lost ability to move an arm or leg, even many years after the stroke occurred.
Although these reviews explore different treatment approaches, they are all designed to cause an increase in physical activity of the upper limbs, which is repetitive, task-related, intended to increase fitness (muscle strength), or some combination of these.

Each advance in a patient's skills and condition is a victory, and over time these small victories start to add up. For persons receiving rehabilitation services in an acute, subacute, skilled, LTAC or nursing home setting, the period of treatment often lasts from two to four weeks.
Pleiotropic interventions such as exercise and EE to enhance motor recovery following stroke appear to hold great promise given the widespread failure of monotherapeutic approaches 88 The same strategy may be beneficial for cognitive recovery but the research in this area is less advanced.
Results show that exercise facilitated somatosensory recovery in the absence of any effect on neurogenesis 23 Like EE, physical exercise improves recovery of general neurological function (e.g., limb placing, balance) 24 , 25 but not motor movements requiring a high level of dexterity such as reaching in rodents after stroke.
For those in the 2 LTP groups, the training parameters of total minutes of stepping on the treadmill per session, minimum percent body-weight support achieved per session, maximum training speed achieved per session, and amount of time spent in overground training per session progressed throughout the intervention period with no plateau.