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Inclusion Criteria: * adults * after first ischemic stroke * early sub-acute phase * slight to moderately severe disability \[2 - 4 on the Modified Rankin Scale\] * 0 - 2 on the Pre-Stroke Modified Rankin Score * potential to accept 4 hours of comprehensive rehabilitation per day and to profit from physiotherapy * minimal or moderate motor deficit of upper or lower extremities (on NIHSS Item 5 or 6 scores 1-3 points) * able to perform activities of daily living prior to stroke event (0 - 2 on the Pre-Stroke Modified Rankin Score) * Czech is participants' native language or its knowledge is at the level of the mother tongue Exclusion Criteria: * low level of consciousness (vegetative state and/or minimally conscious state); severe cognitive decline that would interfere with administration of the tests, premorbid illiteracy, severe visual and/or auditory deficit that would prevent proper completion of the tests * behavioural disorders and/or lack of cooperation with therapist * severe medical problems with a poor prognosis, (e.g., severe frailty, advanced and incurable cancer, fracture, cardiovascular disorders as chronic heart failure NYHA III, IV, symptomatic coronary artery disease Angina Severity Class III, IV, respiratory insufficiency as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease GOLD IV, and other severe disease)