Does an early increased-intensity interdisciplinary upper limb therapy programme following acute stroke improve outcome?

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 579-589

  Rodgers, Helen ^a   Mackintosh, Joan ^a   Price, Christopher ^a   Wood, Ruth ^b   McNamee, Paul ^b   Fearon, Tracy ^a   Marritt, Anna ^a   Curless, Richard ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARM DISEASE; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL CARE; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; ARM; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL MANIPULATIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0042353928     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269215503cr652oa     Document Type: Article

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