Rehabilitation requires the interplay of three essential factors, namely medicine, organization and humanity. The concept of entirety and permanency implies that rehabilitation must commence on the very first day of acute therapy and continue, with the aid of relatives, after discharge from hospital. Depression very frequently accompanies a stroke and requires expert handling both with psychopharmaceutical drugs and psychotherapeutical methods (including nursing staff and family) to overcome this hurdle to rehabilitation. Physiotherapy is of paramount importance, with particular emphasis on active movement. Therapeutic management with medicines must continue along the lines commenced in the acute stage. The therapy of stroke requires a considerable involvement of manpower, which must not be denied to this step-child of rehabilitation. Apart from medical considerations, it is salutary to remember that every fifteenth person is likely to be handicapped after a stroke at some time in his life.