Electro-acupuncture in a child with mild spastic hemiplegic cerebral palsy

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 503-504

  Svedberg, Lena ^a   Nordahl, Gunnar ^b   Lundeberg, Thomas ^c  

^a Ornskoldsviks Hospital   (Sweden)

^b Vasternorrland County Council   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL PALSY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GAIT DISORDER; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; GONIOMETRY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; JOINT MOBILITY; LETTER; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MUSCLE EXAMINATION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE STRETCHING; MUSCLE TONE; PATIENT MOBILITY; PLASTER CAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPASTICITY;

CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; POSTURE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0038150768     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162203000938     Document Type: Letter

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