Stroke refers to a sudden onset of dysfunction of the nervous system caused by a disturbance of cerebral circulation lasting longer than 24 hours. The classification accepted in clinical work distinguishes ischemic stroke from hemorrhagic stroke. It is important to emphasize that this is a condition that requires urgent and effective medical care. It is important to diagnose in time and provide appropriate treatment to such patients who need to be placed in the intensive care unit for stroke. There are risk factors that you can have influence on and risk factors that you cannot have influence on. Some of the risk influencing factors are: smoking, physical inactivity, unhealthy diet, obesity, hormone therapy, hypertension. In order to eliminate the risk factors, it is necessary to introduce healthy living habits for the better functioning of the organism. If a stroke is diagnosed, it is very important to start with appropriate rehabilitation for the patient. Physiotherapists assess a patient's condition by performing a variety of tests to determine the degree of disability. After assessing the patient, the multidisciplinary team leading the rehabilitation determines the short-term and long-term goals and therapies that correspond to the patient's condition. Impairment of balance, sensations, cranial nerves, neuromuscular system and speech and communication disorders are the consequences of a stroke that need to be recovered or rehabilitated. Rehabilitation of gait, wrist and foot are the main guidelines of the rehabilitation process carried out by a physiotherapist. It is important to look at the body as a whole and to recover all disabled parts of the body as much as possible. Patient and family education is an important part of the process carried out by the physiatrist and physiotherapist. Depression is also a very common consequence of stroke because in a large number of cases patients cannot get used to the new life situation and the inability to perform activities that they used to perform on a daily basis without difficulty. The patient and family should be involved in the whole recovery process in order to achieve as many goals as possible.