If you need some reading on stroke recovery and neuroplasticity, which is the basis of all stroke recovery, try these:
Here are the books I've read on neuroplasticity.
The mind and the Brain : neuroplasticity and the power of mental
force / Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley.
Train Your Mind, Change
Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to
Transform Ourselves by Sharon Begley
The brain that changes itself : stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science / Norman Doidge.
The body has a mind of its own : how body maps in your brain help you do (almost) everything better Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee.
Stronger After Stroke by Peter Levine.
The deer-in-the headslights look is extremely common for all stroke survivors because there is nothing on the efficacy of treatments, you may need to do all your research yourself.
Dean, stroke survivor