Joel Stein, MD, chair of the writing group for the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association clinical performance measures, the Simon Baruch professor and chair of the department of rehabilitation and regenerative medicine at Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons; professor and chair of the department of rehabilitation medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine; and physiatrist in chief at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
Stroke affects each person in different ways, so recovery must be individualized. But one constant is that recovery steps should…