Treadmill walking with partial body weight support versus floor walking in hemiparetic subjects

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 421-427

  Hesse, Stefan ^a,b   Konrad, Matthias ^a   Uhlenbrock, Dietmar ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Klinik Berlin   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACK MUSCLE; BODY WEIGHT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAIT; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; LEG MOVEMENT; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; STROKE; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WALKING SPEED;

EID: 0032908185     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-9993(99)90279-4     Document Type: Article

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