Effect of severity of arm impairment on response to additional physiotherapy early after stroke

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 187-198

  Parry, Ruth H ^a   Lincoln, N B ^a   Vass, C D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PHYSIOTHERAPY; REHABILITATION; SHOULDER PAIN; SPASTICITY; STAFF TRAINING; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033013413     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/026921599676198929     Document Type: Article

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