Spasticity after traumatic spinal cord injury: Nature, severity, and location

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1548-1557

  Sköld, Camilla ^a   Levi, Richard ^a   Seiger, Åke ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTURE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROVOCATION TEST; SELF REPORT; SKIN ULCER; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

EID: 0032805745     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-9993(99)90329-5     Document Type: Article

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