Is there evidence that strength training could help improve muscle function and other outcomes without reinforcing abnormal movement patterns or increasing reflex activity in a man who has had a stroke?

Physical Therapy

Volumn 83, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 844-851

  Riolo, Lisa ^a   Fisher, Kimberly ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; ENDURANCE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDLINE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REFLEX; STROKE; TRAINING; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EXERCISE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE; WEIGHT LIFTING;

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; EXERCISE; HUMANS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; WEIGHT LIFTING;

EID: 0141465178     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ptj/83.9.844     Document Type: Note

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