Spasticity after Stroke: What's the Catch?

Stroke

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 139-140

  Cramer, Steven C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMIPARESIS; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPASTICITY; STROKE; SYNKINESIS;

EID: 0347356515     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000105387.38892.98     Document Type: Note

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