For cancer patients, adding exercise into their lives at a time when they are dealing with a cancer diagnosis and the whirlwind of surgery, treatments and management that follows might seem one step too far. The evidence, however, is mounting in favour of exercise as a critical component of cancer therapy.

The recent launch of the updated Stroke Clinical Care Standard, coupled with the Stroke Foundation’s Living Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Management, provides Australian physiotherapists with a comprehensive, evidence-based framework for best practice care. Here, the two sets of recommendations are examined to understand how they work together and what physiotherapists should know about them.