Electromyographic analyses of global synkinesis in the paretic upper limb after stroke

Physical Therapy

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 755-765

  Hwang, Ing Shiou ^a   Tung, Li Chen ^b   Yang, Jeng Feng ^a   Chen, Yi Ching ^c   Yeh, Chun Yu ^c   Wang, Chun Hou ^d  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHI MEI MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

^c CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dynamometer; Electromyography; Global synkinesis; Outcome; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BARTHEL INDEX; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BRACHIORADIALIS MUSCLE; BRUNNSTROM STAGES OF MOTOR RECOVERY SCALE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMOMETRY; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTENSOR CARPI RADIALIS MUSCLE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FUGL MEYER ASSESSMENT SCALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PARESIS; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; SHOULDER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE; SYNKINESIS; WRIST;

EID: 23044453767     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ptj/85.8.755     Document Type: Article

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