Description of a new motor re-education programme for the paretic lower limb aimed at improving the mobility of stroke patients

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 199-206

  Mercier, C ^a   Bourbonnais, Daniel ^a,b   Bilodeau, S ^a   Lemay, J F ^a   Cross, P ^a  

^a Rehabilitation Institute of Montreal   (Canada)

^b Ctr Rech l'Inst Readaptation M   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DYNAMOMETRY; EXERCISE; FOLLOW UP; FORCE; GAIT; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PARESIS; REHABILITATION; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; GAIT; HEMIPLEGIA; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; LEG; MALE; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PROGNOSIS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033013569     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/026921599670905866     Document Type: Article

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