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Should You Do Speech Therapy During Spontaneous Recovery After a Stroke?

Should you do speech therapy during spontaneous recovery?

Quick answer: Yes. Spontaneous recovery is the natural improvement many people see in the weeks after a stroke, and speech therapy can help boost it. Research shows speech therapy improves communication, reading, writing, and expressive language compared with no therapy.

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What is spontaneous recovery?

In the first days after a stroke, someone might not be able to say words or put sentences together. Then, as time goes by, they can do a little more. That's spontaneous recovery.

Should you skip therapy while it's happening?

No. You should do speech therapy. It can help boost and bolster spontaneous recovery. We don't know how much someone will recover on their own versus with therapy, so we want to do everything we can.

Taking charge of your recovery

Doing the therapy and taking charge helps you feel more empowered and motivated. And it helps your recovery look the way you want it to look.

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What the research says

A Cochrane review, the gold standard for summing up medical research, found that speech therapy improves functional communication, reading, writing, and expressive language for people with aphasia after stroke, compared with no therapy. It also found signs that more intensive therapy, or therapy over a longer period, may help more.

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