BACKGROUND: Stroke is the major cause of disability more than 70% of individuals experience upper limb paresis post stroke. Use of the upper limb is vital to the completion of many activities of daily living and health-related quality of life. Increased time spent in therapy improves outcome of the upper limb in post stroke. OBJECTIVES: To find optimal quantity of caregiver support in stroke rehabilitation to improve upper limb function. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A comparative study with pre and post design carried out at the Rehabilitation Unit of ESI, KCG Hospital and Padmashree Clinic, Bangalore. 30 subjects including both gender with sub-acute stroke were randomly divided into three groups. INTERVENTION: Subjects of experimental group A, were treated with GRASP protocol by caregiver for 90 minutes and conventional physiotherapy, subjects of experimental group B were treated with GRASP protocol by caregiver for 60 minutes and conventional physiotherapy and subjects in control group C were treated with conventional physiotherapy only. RESULTS: In all the three groups, statistically it was found that the pre-post assessment score using descriptive statistical analysis were significant (p < 0.001) with both FMUE and CAHAI. Group A showed more significant difference compared to other two groups. CONCLUSION: Thus, 90 minutes can be an optimum duration of caregiver support for upper limb functional recovery in stroke.

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