The influence of illness duration and level of consciousness on the treatment effect and complication rate of serial casting in patients with severe cerebral spasticity

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 373-379

  Pohl, Marcus ^a   Mehrholz, Jan ^a   Rückriem, Stefan ^a  

^a Klinik Bavaria in Kreischa GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECUBITUS; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; JOINT CONTRACTURE; JOINT MOBILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; PLASTER CAST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPASTICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038779516     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269215503cr636oa     Document Type: Article

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